Once we come to know God, something amazing happens. We realise that we are known by name, and God actually gives us a new name.
In the show ‘Walk On The Wild Side’, animals are given human voices and it’s difficult sometimes to tell one animal from another (listen to these marmots getting confused between names here!)
This is never the case with God, however. He knows us personally and adopts us into His family, giving us a new name, even as He changed Abram’s name to Abraham, Jacob’s to Israel and Simon’s to Peter. Their life-changing encounters with God resulted in new names.
Is 62 tells us how God will change our names from ‘deserted’ and ‘desolate’ to ‘Hephzibah’ (‘my delight is in her’) and ‘Beulah’ (‘married’). When God is introduced into our lives, a radical change comes over us and we gain a new identity and name in Him.