"Ichabod- the glory has departed"

Every name has a meaning and it is obvious people live up to their names. People are careful while choosing names, they ensure it makes much sense and it is noteworthy. What does your name mean? Does your name reflect you?

Let me draw your attention to the incident where Israel loses the battle during Eli's period and at the same time his daughter-in-law gives birth to a boy whom she names Ichabod- which meant the glory has departed. A sad name the child had to live with all his life, right? In this case it displays two meaning one the child's father, Eli's son was extremely wicked and secondly the heights of Israel's lawlessness at that time due to which the protection of God was removed.

Today some people have their names to which its meaning is so inspiring and noteworthy but live like Ichabod in a state where the glory has departed already. They may be great worship leader, or a powerful speaker yet live with the departed glory. It is spoken about such people who are "walking encyclopedia but living failures". 

Same is the case of many glorious Churches once, but now lost all glory and just survive for their existence. In the book of Haggai, it talks about the magnificent temple of Solomon and it goes like this, ‘Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How does it look to you now?. .’ Haggai 2:3 CSB. But praise God He is not giving up on us or on the Church He promises to restore the glory. 

We know Moses and Stephen (Acts 6:15), become a person like Jesus, a person with a shining face. The glory of the Lord was with them. In the case of Moses, as Warren Wiersbe says, 'It was the godly influence of the woman who raised him, his mother, Jochebed? Her name means “Jehovah is glory.” Whenever Moses heard his mother’s name, he was reminded that “Jehovah is glory.” The glory of men and nations lasts as long as the flowers and grass in the backyard, but the glory of God lasts forever. That’s the glory we want to choose. As leaders, we are responsible to restore God's glory in the lives of people who have lost it.

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