I AM WHO I AM.

Exodus 3: 13 – 18


I'm sure that we can all identify with Moses when God appeared to him in the burning bush and gave him his mission. Moses was living a comfortable life as a Shepard with a family, then God calls him to lead Israel out of Egypt.
He knew that he wasn't worthy of such a task, he couldn't speak well, was shy, and there was that murder thing he had to face when he went to Egypt.
Moses tried to argue with God, and have Him find someone else to go. He tried every excuse he could think of, but was trumped every time by God. The kicker being when Moses said who am I going to say sent me.


13 Moses said to God, "Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?"
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.’"
15 God also said to Moses, "Say to the Israelites, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This is my name for ever, the name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation.
16 "Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—appeared to me and said: I have watched over you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt.
17 And I have promised to bring you up out of your misery in Egypt into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’
18 "The elders of Israel will listen to you. Then you and the elders are to go to the king of Egypt and say to him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Let us take a three-day journey into the desert to offer sacrifices to the LORD our God.’

Game, set, and match.
We are often reluctant to leave our comfort zones. We feel safe where we are. It's hard to go and do things we are not used to. They don't call them comfort zones for nothing. But, God wants to stretch us, to help us to learn to fully put our trust in Him, and to go and do His will.
Bible commentator G. Bush writes this about God’s description of Himself: “He, in distinction from all others, is the one only true God, the God who really is . . . . The eternal, self-existent, and immutable Being; the only being who can say that He always will be what He always has been.”
God says, “I AM WHO I AM.” He and His name are perfect. In reverence we are to bow before Him.