From J. C. Philpot's Daily Portions
August 4 "And those who know your name will put their trust in
you." Psalm 9:10 There is a knowing of God's name. By the "name of God"
are to be understood the revealed perfections of the Almighty--all that he
has revealed concerning himself in the Scriptures of truth. Every attribute,
every perfection, everything that God has said of himself, is summed up in
the "name of God." But especially does the "name of God" signify the Son of
his love, who is "the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his
Person;" as he said to Moses, "Behold, I send an Angel before you, to keep
you in the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.
Beware of him and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon
your transgressions--for my name is in him;" that is, all my revealed
perfections, all my glorious character, all my divine attributes are in him;
for "in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily." Now, there is a knowing this name of God; that is, there
is such a thing as an experimental acquaintance in the soul with the
perfections of God as revealed in the Scriptures. His name is therefore
known when the perfections of God are revealed in the heart and conscience
by the power of the Spirit. And this is by virtue of living faith in the
soul. By faith we see God. By faith we know God. When we receive into our
hearts the truth as it is in Jesus, and when we believe by living faith what
God has said of himself in the word, then we know the name of God; and every
manifestation of God's mercy, every token of God's favor, and every shining
in of God's perfections, is a discovery in our hearts, a raising up in our
souls of the knowledge of God's name.