Background Music – I Am – Cece Winans
God answered Moses, “I Am Who I Am. This is what you must say to the people of Israel: ‘I Am has sent me to you.’” Exodus 3:14
One of the things I like about the opening phrases is the fact that God answered Moses. Life is full of paradoxes, puzzles, and problems that set us in quest for answers in different directions. I am grateful for the encouragement in this text that there is an answer! An answer to your physical, financial, professional, social, familial, marital, emotional, spiritual or legal problem! Your case is not unsolvable neither is it impossible.
Jesus looked straight at them and answered, “This is impossible for human beings but not for God; everything is possible for God.” Mark 10:27
There are 3 fundamental lessons from God’s response to Moses:
1. PERSONALITY [I]: God is personable and relatable – He is a person and not just a supernatural being beyond the galaxies. For we do not have a high priest who cannot be touched by the feelings of our infirmities. If you are hurt, He feels it too.
2. ORIGINALITY & IMMUTABILITY [I Am]: God is self-existing. Nothing made him and nobody can attempt to copy him. Every other god or being that tried has failed woefully – He is still top of the charts at being who he was, is, and will always be – Unchanging! Everlasting!! God!!!
3. INCOMPREHENSIBILITY [I Am Who I Am]: God is God all by himself – can’t be figured out or boxed-in. He is too much to be limited to time, space, places or things. Some know him as healer, provider or deliverer, etc. Truth is he is all that, and much more. The Psalmist said his greatness is unsearchable. At best, all we know now is incomplete, there’ll come a time when all obscurity and ambiguity will fade – when we see him face to face and will know even as we are fully known. What a day that will be!
Got questions? Great, God’s got the answers! He is the God of all flesh, nothing is too hard for him. Nothing (no thing) includes the stuff that you are currently losing sleep over. All you need to do is ask!
Ask, and you will receive; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. Matthew 7:7
Ask me and I will tell you remarkable secrets you do not know about things to come.
Jeremiah 33:3
Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honour Me.
Psalm 50:15
I will answer their prayers before they finish praying.
Isaiah 65:24