Exodus 3:13-14 – “Then Moses said to God, “Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ what shall I say to them?” And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”
God created the heavens and the earth. He hung the stars in the sky, and He set the earth in its orbit around the sun. Hebrews 11:3 says, By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.” He created man in His own image and likeness. He met with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden in the cool of the day.
He is powerful but He is also personal. The God who commands angels and administrates the affairs of His vast creation has the ability to hear each of us personally when we pray and answer those very prayers. Jeremiah 29:12 says, “then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.” He sees every part of our lives and is personally concerned about us. Job 34:21 says, “For His eyes are on the ways of man, And He sees all his steps.”
He dealt personally with Noah. We learn in Genesis 6:8 that “Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.” He instructed Him to build an ark and saved him and his family alone. He dealt personally with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He later identified Himself to Moses as “the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
The Scriptures are filled with examples of God’s personal dealings with man. He will deal personally with each of us. Jesus did not die on the cross and be resurrected three days later to establish another lifeless ritualist religion, but He came for each of us and died in our place so we could be reconciled to the Father. I Peter 1:20 says, “He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you.”
The Apostle John writes in John 1:10-12, “He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name.” We receive Him by faith. We invite Him to take up residence in our hearts. He establishes a relationship with us personally. The Apostle Paul writes in Philippians 3:10, “that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death.” He is the Great I AM. His words to us are, I AM powerful, I AM present, and I AM personal.
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