What an amazing God we have! Not only did He number the stars but He made them also (Gen. 1:16), and even named them. What if you or I were called upon to give names to ten thousand stars? Do you suppose we would be up to the task? What about a million stars? What about untold billions of them? When we think of such things we are quickly caught up in a quagmire of incomprehensibility; our little finite minds fail us and we are lost in a sea of awe and wonder. 

    In Hebrew 12:22 we read of "an innumerable company of angels," and in Jude 9 and Rev. 12:7 we read of Michael the archangel, and in Luke 1:19, 26 of the angel Gabriel. And since these two angels are called by name, may we not safely conclude that all the angels are likewise named. It is my opinion that all the innumerable host of saints---each member of the elect famiy---has been given their own individual name by which they are, and will be, known in heaven. 

    I have personally known of several people by the same first and last name as my own, but in heaven I believe we will have our own unique names. "The sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out" (John 10:3). If the stars and the angels have their own distinct name, why should it not be the same with God's people, for even the very hairs of their heads are numbered (See Matt. 10:30 & Luke 12:7). "Rejoice, because your names are written in heaven (Luke 10:20). "My fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life" (Phil. 4:3). 

    God is a God of infinite variety. He makes each of us to differ from every other person who ever lived upon the earth. He gives us our own distinct features, our own fingerprints, our own unique personality and disposition. Would He then settle for the name given us by our parents, and which probably thousands of other people share with us, or would He not rather give us the name of His own choice? I like to think He would do the latter.