{"id":95,"date":"2026-04-27T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.essentialyouth.net\/site\/?p=95"},"modified":"2026-05-04T14:04:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T14:04:22","slug":"known-by-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.essentialyouth.net\/site\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/known-by-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Known by Name"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Psalm 147:4 \u2014 \u201cHe determines the number of the stars; He gives to all of them their names.\u201d<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">King David was likely just a teenager, out in the fields watching his sheep, doing a job most people overlooked. Day after day, night after night, he learned his sheep, not just as a flock, but individually. He knew which one would wander, which one needed help, which one would respond to his voice. That kind of care came from being present, from paying attention, from truly knowing what was entrusted to him. Then one night he looked up and saw a sky full of stars, more than he could ever count, and realized something staggering, God not only made them, He calls each one into existence by name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>And somehow, that truth didn\u2019t make King David feel small, it made him feel known. The same God who holds the stars in place saw a shepherd boy in a field and called him into something greater. That hasn\u2019t changed. You\u2019re not lost in the crowd or overlooked in the noise. The God who names the stars knows you just as deeply, and He\u2019s still calling you forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psalm 147:4 \u2014 \u201cHe determines the number of the stars; He gives to all of them their names.\u201d King David was likely just a teenager, out in the fields watching his sheep, doing a job most people overlooked. Day after day, night after night, he learned his sheep, not just as a flock, but individually. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faithdrops"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.essentialyouth.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/FaithDrops_N.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialyouth.net\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialyouth.net\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialyouth.net\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialyouth.net\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialyouth.net\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialyouth.net\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialyouth.net\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialyouth.net\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialyouth.net\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialyouth.net\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialyouth.net\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}