Don’t you just love some of the names on major appliances?  Are there little groups of people that sit around and come up with these labels?  Or does the last guy in the assembly line have to slap a piece of fake chrome on the machine before it goes into a box.  Maybe there’s a bucket there with all kinds of names, and they just reach in and pull out one. (We did not purchase any of our major appliances—they were in the home when we rented it.  And none of these names have been changed to protect anyone).

My oven is an Admiral (I bet that piece of knowledge has you drooling with jealousy).  What does that name have to do with anything?  I suppose if it were a Captain or a Corporal, no one would ever dream of buying it (“Dear, hasn’t anyone told you?  Privates are so Passé). 

My oven is a Clean-a-Matic.  There’s nothing automatic about it, if that’s what they’re trying to say, and I’m the only one who cleans it, so it’s not very clean (not to worry, though—if you come over, I’ll be forced to clean it).  It is also labeled Infinite Heat.  Does that mean it doesn’t need wood and a match to run?  I sure don’t leave it on for infinity.

Did you know that I have an Auto-Control Center on my oven?  I’m not sure what that means, but it sounds like I should be able to feed in recipes somewhere and by dinnertime, out pops a 7-course meal.

Those names are basically pointless to me, but not these:  Jesus, Savior, Jehovah, Jehovah-Jireh (and a lot more than just those!).  What great meaning they have to us as Christians (do you know their definitions?).  I encourage you to take just one name each day, study it, and see how it applies to your life.

Excuse me, but I have to go clean a matic.