“I Will Write Upon Him My New Name”

Revelation 3:12

Our Savior promises to make every believer a pillar in the temple of God, a permanent and vital part of his temple. He promises to give us assurance that we belong to God and are by grace, through imputed righteousness and blood atonement, rightful heirs of the kingdom of God, writing upon us the name of God and the name of the city of God. Then, he says, “I will write upon him my new name.” I find only one name in the Bible that can be called a “new” or “acquired” name for Christ. His new name, the name which he acquired by his obedience to the Father as our Substitute is “THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS” (Jer. 23:6). This is the name he writes upon his people, the name by which we are rightfully called. “THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS” (Jer. 33:16), for we have been made the righteousness of God in him (II Cor. 5:21).

Don Fortner