How do you identify who you are? By what you do? Where you’re from? Maybe a combination of the two? Regardless of how we identify ourselves, we usually start by saying, “I am _____” (fill in the blank).
Then Moses said to God, If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, The God of your fathers has sent me to you, and they ask me, What is his name? what shall I say to them? God said to Moses, I am who I am . And he said, Say this to the people of Israel, I am has sent me to you. (Exodus 3:13-14 ESV)
God identifies himself the only reasonable way we could understand– by himself. Moses and God to identify who He is and God responds by saying , “I am who I am.” In a profoundly terse statement God says, “I am God.” That is to say that God can only be described and identified as God. That is with a capital “G”. Moses, who at this point is beside himself, fails to understand that it doesn’t matter who he is, it only matters who God is. Most of us fail to see this as well. Most of us are trying so hard to define who we are that we forget that we don’t matter as much as who our God is. God is God and as such, we understand that God who is God sends you and me to exactly where we are because God chose us to be with His people. The title of this quiet time is, ” I am ______.” I want you to know that if God is God and can be described in no other terms than who He is, and if the “I am who I am” has sent you and me, then you and me, we are ______ because God is who I am comes from being.
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