“Lord, I lift Your name on high”

The first word, ‘Lord’, brings out the essence of this song to me. What do we mean when we say: ‘Lord’? A minister highlighted the point that you cannot say Lord and then turn around and say, “No.”  He was making that statement at the dedication ceremony of the pastor of my previous fellowship.  He suggested that our pastor had been called into this ministry and that the only way to respond to our Lord is by saying ‘Yes, Lord.’ Can you see the picture here? If I say ‘Lord’, that means I am referring to my Master—the One who created me.  If He says, ‘Go.’ I can’t say, ‘Sorry, Lord, I can’t go.’  The moment you say ‘Lord, you are acknowledging your status as a servant.  A servant serves.  Therefore, he/she does what his/her Master requires.  We never say, ‘No!’

Paul, in his letter to Timothy, wrote: “And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory" (1^st Timothy 3:16). So acknowledging Jesus Christ as my Lord and Saviour; the One who reconnected me to my heavenly Father, I am now subjected to His will.  There is no alternative but to do what He tells me to do.

The next part says, ‘I lift Your name on high’.  Here, I understand that I need to position myself to praise Him at all times.  I can encourage others to praise Him but it is an individual call.  I need to praise Him, so that’s how I lift up His name.  My praise should be continual and therefore, it is not based on my circumstance in life.  While sending up the praises, God will then use my praise to draw others to Him. 

See closing part of this article for further thoughts on this line.

 
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