"What's your name?"

We hear that question almost every day.  Yet many of us don't know who we really are.  We spend so much time trying to meet the expectations of others and overcome the pressures we put on ourselves that we forget how much more God has in store for us.

The biblical patriarch Jacob spent years living out the meaning of his earthly name:  "deceiver".  Only when he stopped accepting the names the world pinned on him did he hear God speak his true name.  Only then could he understand the vision God had for his life.

Using Jacob's story as a powerful backdrop, Kary Oberbrunner calls us to abandon what we know so we can become who we were born to be.  Jacob was unaware that God would build a nation through him.  He was unaware that Jesus, the promised Redeemer, would be one of his descendents.  He was unaware of the lands he would one day inherit.  Until he heard his Heavenly Father whisper his Secret Name.

You might be unaware of God's plans for you.  You might not be able to fathom what God wants to build through you.  You can hardly imagine the lands he wants you to inherit.  Until you truly wrestle with God.  Until you hear God whisper "Your Secret Name".