Exodus 3:13-15
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 forever, the name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation.
Moses did not know how to tell the people the God to which he was referring to. Back then, there were many God. Gods of the sea, the weather, the earth, of getting pregnant. When asked, he was looking at what god God really is. God just answered "I Am", meaning, of all and everything. This same God is that of his fathers.
Many times, we put God into a compartment. We like to define who He is. But really, God can not be defined. He is beyond what we know and can comprehend. God is who He is. We are not to label Him. That is idolatry, when we create God in our own image.
Father, I pray that I may not label You and to put you in an image that is after my own. Lord, if I have done so, please forgive me for what I have done. I pray that You be a God. Period. Show me all of You, though I know that I will never fully grasp who You are. I pray that You be glorified. I pray that you be praised. A great and powerful almighty God of this Universe, and more. I pray all this in Jesus name.
Amen.
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