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你有没有想过，你的父母为什么为你取了你现在所用的这个名字呢？你可能是以一位亲人的名字命名的，他们或许是用圣经中某个人物的名字作为你的名字，又或者他们是因为喜欢这个名字听起来悦耳而选择用它给你命名。

当马利亚快要生产时，她和约瑟并没有选择的余地，因为神差遣使者吩咐他们，要给孩子起名叫耶稣。

在希腊文中耶稣这个名字，正是希伯来文中的约书亚，而约书亚就是神拣选带领以色列民进入应许之地的人。（参书 1）在希伯来文中，约书亚这个名字的意思是“神是拯救”，对于这位带领以色列民离开旷野的流荡生活、进到神应许之地的人来说，这个名字实在非常合适。在神伟大的故事中，约书亚的一生都指向另一位更伟大的人物。

在使徒信经中，当我们说“我信我主耶稣”时，我们宣告神的儿子耶稣是我们的拯救。神自己的儿子，把我们从罪恶的深渊中拯救出来，又使我们因认识神而在祂里面得享安息，从而进入光明和不止息的平安中。

人世间很多事物都承诺要让你得释放，然而圣经却清楚指出，认识神只有一条途径——就是藉着祂的儿子耶稣。（参约 14:6）你相信祂吗？你信靠祂吗？祂的名字是“救主”或“主拯救”的意思。这个名字显明，耶稣就是神的拯救。

Have you ever wondered why your parents chose your name? Maybe they named you after a family member. Perhaps they named you after a person in the Bible. Or maybe they chose your name because they liked the way it sounded.

When Mary was about to give birth, she and Joseph didn’t have a choice. Through an angel, God commanded them to name the child Jesus.

The name Jesus is Greek for the Hebrew name Joshua, whom God chose to lead Israel into the promised land (Joshua 1). The Hebrew name Joshua means “God is deliverance,” and that was a fitting name for the man who led Israel out of their wandering in the wilderness and into the land God had promised them. And in God’s great story, the life of Joshua points toward an even greater figure.

When we say, with the Apostles’ Creed, “I believe in Jesus,” we affirm that God’s Son, Jesus, is our salvation. God’s own Son rescues us from the dark pit of our sin into the light and spacious peace of knowing and resting in God.

So many things promise deliverance in this life. Yet the Bible states clearly that there is only one way to know God—and that is through his Son, Jesus (John 14:6). Do you believe in him? Do you trust in him? His name means “Savior,” or “the Lord saves,” revealing that Jesus is God’s deliverance.