13Moses 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?”
14God said to Moses, “I am who I am.c This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I amhas sent me to you.’ ”
15God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The Lord,d 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 you shall call me
from generation to generation.
16“Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—appeared to me and said: I have watched over you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt. 17And I have promised to bring you up out of your misery in Egypt into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’ (Exodus 3)
Thoguhts: God tells so much about Himself in this calling of Moses to bring his people back to faithfulness and the promised land. He says that He is the God of their fathers. He is not a strange God, but an intimate God who has cared for their family in the past.
He tells them that He has watched over them. He has multiplied their numbers. He has also seen their misery. He remembered the promise of the promised land- as part of His love and His plan.
He tells them that He has watched over them. He has multiplied their numbers. He has also seen their misery. He remembered the promise of the promised land- as part of His love and His plan.
He says his name Yeh weh= Yahweh- I am who I am. He is the meaning of being- the reason of being. He is the one who was, is, and is to come- all tenses of the verb to be. We are alive because the God who gives life also sustains life. So let us also trust in Him and follow Him.
Prayer: Lord, help me to trust and follow you to the fulfillment of your promises.
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