“For this reason God highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow — in heaven and on earth and under the earth — and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” (vv. 9-11(

He’s earned it.

Jesus, the Son of God, emptied Himself and became like us. He was perfectly obedient in the flesh, as we could not be. He was humbled and humiliated—He took what we deserved—all the way to the cross, to death.

Why do we call Him “Lord”? Why do we worship Him? Why are our songs, now and forever, about Him—His work, His worth?

It’s because He is highly exalted by God the Father. Jesus’ name has become the name above every name. His Father decreed it, and His Spirit declares it in our hearts. And that isn’t capricious theologizing: Jesus has earned it, deserves it, and is worthy of it because of His specific and inimitable and historical work.

Lift high His name, for it is already elevated, and rightly so.

— Tyler