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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Trials are the crucible in which perseverance is forged.
Unknown Author

The concept of 'name' has to do with person, character, nature, essence, who someone is. Therefore, we are not to take God, in the fullness of who He is, and treat Him in a vain way, or an empty, irreverent, impious, insincere, phony, fraudulent manner. Not taking the Lord’s name in vain, then, is not limited to cursing or something like that, but it means to treat God with irreverence, superficiality, insincerity, or phoniness, or to bring to God empty worship, hypocritical worship or honor. Someone has said frankly that God’s name is taken in vain more often in the church than outside of it, where people come and offer empty worship with their needless repetition, empty praise-words, singing without thought of God, praying with indifference, hearing the Word and never applying it – all of this is empty worship, phony, hypocritical. Such worship is damnable, condemned in the Word of God.
John MacArthur

Bible – dutch – FREE Online Hollands Statenvertaling. Job Chapter 25:1-6.

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25:1 Toen antwoordde Bildad, de Suhiet, en zeide:

25:2 Heerschappij en vreze zijn bij Hem, Hij maakt vrede in Zijn hoogten.

25:3 Is er een getal Zijner benden? En over wien staat Zijn licht niet op?

25:4 Hoe zou dan een mens rechtvaardig zijn bij God, en hoe zou hij zuiver zijn, die van een vrouw geboren is?

25:5 Zie, tot de maan toe, en zij zal geen schijnsel geven; en de sterren zijn niet zuiver in Zijn ogen.

25:6 Hoeveel te min de mens, die een made is, en des mensen kind, die een worm is!