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Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of Gods mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. Rom 12:1 |
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Friend,
If you do not already have a habit of gathering daily manna the first thing in the morning (we can look at the example given to us in Exodus 16 and find the pattern for make it a habit. Establish your life and your schedule to allow you the necessary time to do your daily collection first thing every morning to give you the strength to make it through the day. And remember that today’s manna will not be sufficient for tomorrow; tomorrow’s manna must be collected tomorrow morning. Saturday, May 23, 2026
Today's Passage : Today's Passage:Moses and The Burning Bush [3] - The Name of God Bible Verse:Exodus 3:13-15 "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?” Moses and the Burning Bush, Orthodox mosaic Byzantine mosaic, ca. 9th century 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.’” God also said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel, ‘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 forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations.” " Message:
There is a theological term, “immanent”, which is useful to think about here. It unfortunately sounds like not one, but two more common words, “eminent” (outstanding, distinguished) and “imminent” (about to happen), but it is not related in meaning to either of them. (Note the odd spelling.) The immanence of God means God as He exists in the world, as he is with us. Because God is immanent, we can know Him, at least in part.
We cannot know God completely; we cannot see Him as He is. But, from time to time, God will be with us in a form we can know and understand. He makes himself into something or someone with whom we can communicate. In our world today, the immanent God is the Holy Spirit. Christ’s promise to us, that He would not leave us alone, meant that God would be present forever as the Holy Spirit. Thus we say that the Holy Spirit is the immanent God.
At the beginning of Exodus 3, God has been out of communication with the Hebrews for hundreds of years. His appearance as a burning bush and a voice is a momentous event. Remember how gently God approached Abraham, in the time just before He destroyed Sodom (Genesis 18). One might say that this was possible, or appropriate, because Abraham knew God and actively sought to please Him.
I AM from Exodus 3:14
“I AM” (Exodus 3:14)
But at the beginning of Exodus, God appears to Moses in a more fearsome, attention-grabbing manner. Moses does not seem to have had much prior knowledge of God. So God appears to him in a startling supernatural occurrence, explicitly demanding reverence and telling Moses exactly who He is. (Exodus 3:1-6.) Moses is not bold enough to demand God’s name, but instead asks Him what he should say if others ask.
The Name of God was a critical concept to ancient peoples, for their gods had names, and it was by their name that people thought the power of the god might be invoked. But the true God does not give what we would consider a “name”. He basically says, “I’m God, period. If you have to call me something, know me as the God of Abraham and your forefathers.”
The Hebrews will adopt “I AM” as the “name” of God. (“I AM” is an English translation of “YHWH”, often written out as “Yahweh” and transliterated in some Bibles to “Jehovah”.) Certainly He knows this and allows (and often encourages) them to do it. But one must suspect that this mind-puzzle is a sop to human limitations.
The immanent God is God as He shows Himself to us, so that we can grasp His existence, a voice and visual phenomenon created to communicate with humanity. God as He exists — the full nature of God — is unseeable and unknowable to our limited capabilities. Later on in Exodus He will tell Moses that to look upon the “face of God” would be fatal. He transcends our reality; we can ultimately know Him only as “I am”. “God” is the god who is. He has no tense. He was, He will be. He always “is”.
Meditation : Prayer : Let me not forget you as I go forth into the world this day, blessed Lord; may my every word be a prayer, and my every act be testimony to your love and truth, and may I know your presence every second of this day. Amen. |
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