Depends on whom you ask, I suppose, but names are more than labels. They are very personal representations of individuals, with personality, imagination, and countenance. When a person thinks of your name, they think of you and all that makes you you. Maybe it's your smile, your warm hug, your laugh, the way you listen to a friend as he pours out his heart. Maybe you are a servant and give of yourself for others, or perhaps you are an athlete, and everybody knows what you would rather be doing.
Regardless what you are known for, when your name is mentioned a mental image is formed, and the speaker is thinking of you. Not the girl from your fourth grade class that shared your name. Not the man in the grocery store that answered to what you thought was your friend calling you. In fact, they are talking about the singular, and unique YOU.
I have often wondered if people with the same name behave the same and share personality traits. Or, do people become who they are in part because of their name? What about in the Bible, when parents named their kids according to current events, or supernatural happenings? Did that play a role in who the children became? I guess that is one thing to ask God when I get to heaven.
But consider it...what kind of an image pops into others heads when your name is mentioned? Are you leaving the kind of character in each step behind you that others would admire or desire?
Would someone refuse to name their child with "your name" because of your reputation, or would they proudly pass it on with prayers that their child will have similarities to your Godly character?
Something to think about.
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