IMAGES OF GOD #13

God has revealed himself as the God who is. He is the eternal being, existing in an eternal present. His unique, self-identifying name is I AM.

When Moses asked him what his name was he said: 'I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: 'I AM has sent me to you.'

In naming himself this way God teaches us that he has no beginning and no ending. He is, in fact, the beginning and the ending, the source and the goal, of everything else that exists.

God also reveals to us in this self-identifying name that he is constant and unchangeable. He is the 'same yesterday, today and forever'.

When Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, walked on this earth, he claimed for himself this same unique name, and by referring to himself in this way clearly identified himself as God.

With such a God as this, who surpasses the limits and boundaries of both time and space, we can live in the limitations of time and space with great confidence and assurance. This is our confidence: that wherever we are, God is there, no matter what the time, God is there, and, irrespective of our own changeability and the fickleness and transience of everything else that we experience, God does not change.

Scripture: Exodus 3:14; Romans 11:36; 1 Corinthians 8:6; Colossians 1:16; Revelation 1:8,17, 2:8; Malachi 3:6; Hebrews 13:8; John 8:24, 58; Psalm 139:1-18.