I Am that I Am

Exodus 3:14

God said to Moses, “I am who I am . This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.'”

I AM that I AM

               It is really hard for us as human beings to truly wrap our minds around the “I AM”.  We have concepts; we have some imagery in our minds of whom we think He is.  We have His Word that expresses His character and nature, His mighty acts and conveys to us how He deals with His creation.  Most of all, we have Jesus who is the divine expression of God’s character and nature in flesh.  God has conveyed to us in the ways that our human understanding can grasp, some of what and who He is, but even that doesn’t begin to express the magnitude of His greatness. 

               When we ponder the stars and the universe, we catch a glimpse of how infinitely great and powerful our God is.  When we see that He would send to us undeserving humans His very own Son to die for our sins we get some since of the magnitude of His love, but can we ever grasp all that I AM is?  I don’t believe in this earthly mind we fully can.  What we should realize is that there is nothing our God can not do.  Upon Him there are no limitations except those He would impose upon Himself. 

               As God brings us into the realm of the I AM, we come to a state of rest as we cease from who we were and start becoming what He is through the work of His Spirit that now indwells us.  Have you ever taken a child’s hand to guide it and show them how to form letters only to have them take back control and make scribble out of the order of what you were trying to teach them?  That is what we do every time we take the control of our lives back away from God.  His ways will bring the order and the peace that we seek in our lives, while our own ways will only bring us back into chaos. 

               God wants us to know Him for who He is in the measure that we can comprehend Him.  Never underestimate what He can and will do for you if you will rest in the confidence of who He is.  I AM that I AM is resident in His people today.  As He showed Himself mighty in bringing the people of God out Egypt, He will show Himself mighty to us.  Let us not fall into the same sin of murmuring and unbelief that so many of the children of Israel did. Because God is God, His ways are higher than our ways and His thoughts are higher than our thoughts.  Trust Him even when your heart and your faith are being tested.  Know that I AM is in control no matter what the circumstances speak.  His love, truth and promises never fail.  I AM who I AM is ever with you.

Blessings,

#kent

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