Created to take on a Name

What’s more, our hearts brim with joy
since we’ve taken for our own his holy name. - Ps. 33.21

I suppose there are many ways to make our hearts brim with joy...temporarily; the birth of a child, a wedding, good news, etc. here in the Psalms we have one of the things at can make our hearts brim with joy forever: We take for our own his holy name.

What might that mean? In Hebrew culture the name was identified with everything about a person, their character, conduct, and identity. When we take on God's holy name we are setting our destiny with God (and therefore against anything or anyone that opposes God). We are, to put it in the vernacular, all in, because it is God or nothing. This makes our hearts brim with joy because we are doing what we were created to do.