Jesus Name -- a "God incident"

I had a "God incident" yesterday. I picked up Donald Spoto's book "The hidden Jesus" and just started reading and it fit exactly here for this blog.  He's given the "intellectual, researched" information about Jesus name.  He says "the Greek Jesous 'Jesus' derives from a shortened form of the Hebrew name Joshua, who was the successor of Moses; the name means 'Yahweh is salvation,' or 'God saves' ...

Jesus became a common name so a description of origin was normally added in order to distinguish, for example 'Jesus of Nazareth'... As early as 50s A.D (within 20 years of Jesus' death), Paul included in his letters many references to the widely known title "Christ" to designate Jesus....the Greek Christos translates the Hebrew word for Messiah, God's 'anointed one' for whom all Israel awaited.... To this day 'Jesus Christ' is the form by which he is known-- the label for this man whom the process of history may reject but whom it cannot ignore. 'Jesus Christ,' if nothing else, has entered all Western languages as, at least, a common exclamation of shock or anger, a universally recognized pair of cuss words.  But to those who consider him not a dusty figure of the past but the one who is truly alive, the name is, as Bernard of Clairvaux said in the twelfth century, "a shout of joy and music to the ear."

So when I hear the Lord's name used in vain (which is breaking one of the 10 commandments) I usually say "I'm not Him" or "You know Him too?"

Thanks God for "God incidences"; they're so much fun!