WHY THAT NAME OF NAMES?

Why is it that the name on every cursing lip
 Is the Name of Jesus Christ the Lord?
Why is that Name of names the first to slip
 From those who most vehemently deny God's Holy Word?

What is it that incites those wicked who deny
 That there even is a God at all
To misuse the one Name on which they could rely
 To save them, be they great or small?

Is not the fact that men swear by that Name
 The greatest proof that there can be
That there is One True God, and that He came
 To die on a cross to set men free?

Why else should His Name be used so much
 By those wicked who His very self deny,
Who, by using it as a blasphemous crutch,
 To that very Name of names do testify.

How often wicked men take that Name in vain.
 Ah, yes, and wicked women use it, too,
To their disgrace, for it makes them coarse and plain
 And shows them to be rotten through and through.

To use the name of Jesus Christ that way
 Marks one to be both wicked and depraved.
It is the Name through which to God men pray,
 And the only One by which we can be saved.

a. franklin staples

April 8, 1993

Copyright © 1993 by A. Franklin Staples