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My Question of the Day for 21 August 2009
My Question of the Day: Does the meaning of your first name fit who you perceive yourself to be?
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Wow – if that’s not an amazing bit of proof that God’s alive and well… I’m just not sure what is. I totally second your “AMEN!” Glad you were able to reconcile it all
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LikeDislikeHopefully, someone will be blessed by what I am about to write here. I have to give you the background before I tell everyone the meaning of my name.
My name is Jaketha and its pronounced “Já • key • tha”. Since I wasn’t raised by my mother and only met my father in the last two years or so, I had no clue what my name meant or what it stood for. As a matter of fact, I continued to hate my name even after I found out what it meant simply because at that time I had never met my father.
My mother combined the first two letters of my father’s first, middle and last name and added an “a” to the end. So, by looking up the spiritual meanings of my father’s “full” name, JAKETHA means “nurtured” (Psa. 23:4), “trustworthy” (Luke 19:17), “divinely perserved” (Prov. 2:11) and “firstborn”.
In the physical realm, I am my father’s firstborn and my mother’s only child and I am considered a trustworthy person. Despite the fact that I was an only child, in the natural realm, I wasn’t “nurtured” but when you put that up against “divinely preserved” – my God!!!! “Nurtured” + “Divinely Perserved” = God having his hand on my life despite all the trials and tribulations. AMEN somebody!!!!
So, I said all of that to say – Yes, I do perceive my first name to an adequate representation of who I am.
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