I AM WHO I AM..

Many times I am brought back to this verse, in Exodus 3:14 about God being the Great I AM. It's really weird that this was the devo for today, since a couple days ago I was just talking about this!! :) This is a sweet message to me that God wanted me to hear. I mean, it was already on my heart, and in my mind, and all of a sudden I read my e-mail for the daily devo- and here it is AGAIN! I think God wants to engrain into my system that He just IS. His existance is enough. I don't have to over-analyze Him or try to understand Him- or try to understand His purpose for me in this world. Yes, He definitely has a purpose for all things, but we can rest in knowing that since He is omnipresent and omniscient (He is everywhere AND knows all) we don't have to worry about a single thing. We don't have to try to figure out our path..it will just happen if we let Him work in us, if we hand it all over to Him and trust Him. And- why are we being selfish with it, anyways?? Sure, we all want to have successful careers, marriages, happiness, etc.- but if HE chooses to strip those things from us, that is because He wants to fill us with HIM and not all these other worldly things. All those things are given to us solely that we would turn back to Him and glorify Him, saying "look at what HE's done- and what HE's given me- He is beautiful and amazing and wonderful".. We should be able to love Him regardless of the things He's given though. In the stripping away and taking away, we should still come back to the fact that He is GOOD. He loves us, and that is enough. :)

So, read this devo from today entitled "Trust His Character". It's great...

Trust His Character
Day 202

How do you perceive God? Who is He to you?

"Get solidly in your mind who God is," said Dr. E. V. Hill. "He is not a smart man somewhere who finished from Yale or Harvard who is trying to figure out day-to-day problems for people. . . . He is the eternal I AM. He is the eternal last word. And He is love.

"So when He does something or permits something to happen, you are the one who has to wade through all of this human thinking of what God should have done. God is the Answer. It has been my experience that if you continue to have faith and continue to stay at your post, God somehow will explain it to you. He doesn't have to, but I've seen it over and over. I've seen people come up to me and say, 'Pastor, it's been a long time, but I'm beginning to see now. I'm beginning to see.'"

God is the answer to every question and every need.

"God said to Moses, 'I AM WHO I AM'; and He said, 'Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, I AM has sent me to you'" (Exodus 3:14 nasb).

The New American Standard Study Bible (Zondervan 1999) explains that "I AM WHO I AM" in Exodus 3:14 is the name that expresses God's character as the dependable and faithful God who desires the full trust of His people.

God, I want to know You and trust You as the eternal I AM. May I find security and rest in this all-encompassing aspect of your character. Amen.