Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Genesis 2:7, 15-25
by: Leanne Lippincott.
When I was younger, I thought it was inexcusable for a baby to come home from the hospital without a first name. The parents certainly had more than enough time to decide on one! Then I became pregnant with our second child. Denny and I chose a girl’s name with no problem, but we couldn’t agree on a boy’s name. It took us almost nine months to finally come up with “Jay.”
Can you imagine taking on the task of naming “all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air”? But that’s exactly what Adam did. And because God loved the human he had created, “whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name” (Genesis 2:19, NIV).