I love this verse, it is awesome:
Exodus 3;14 - And God said to Moses, I AM WHO I AM and WHAT I AM, and I WILL BE WHAT I WILL BE; and He said, you shall say this to the Israelites, I AM has sent me to you.
Every time God describes himself through a name he is revealing a little more about who he is; his personality. The named referred to here is YHWH, or its verb; HAYAH, to be. In fact all of God's names are actually verbs simultaneously.
But i love this Name, and the comfort it is meant to give his people as they were slaves in Egypt.
I believe God is the ultimate truth and every other 'truth' that exists today has to bend and stretch until it is broken under God ultimate truth. God was going to deliver Israel out of Egypt and he started his plan by telling them a little about himself.
And this is where it gets pretty awesome.
I WILL BE WHAT I WILL BE. There is no side stepping that one! God has no intentions of changing, no intentions of bending rules and parameters he makes for himself (even though God is limitless). God is saying that he is not going to change, so evidently something else has too.
Apply this to your life, any situations that are coming or against you that are unjust and are in fact stepping over your rights as a child of God. God will not change, he will be what he will be; now apply the power of that name to your situation, confess, pray it, call on it, prophesy it!! If my God is not going to change then something is going to have to change!!!
When you pray about the things going on in the world, don't settle for what you see, it may look like Egypt; slavery, imprisonment, looking like there is no way out; but God is your banner and he has no intention of changing; his glory is stubborn, his steadfastness is trustworthy!! I have the biblical grounds for praying in and with name concerning all things on earth; i believe we should use his name with glory and power and say to the world God is not going to change, so you change!!
Youngblood.
3 comments:
Amen, Ben. What a great, solid, bedrock doctrine - the unchangeable nature of God - the immutability of God. He never changes in his love, faithfulness, truth, power, goodness, and sovereign control over all things. Preach it - Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today and forever!
Hi,
It's funny, but I sometimes think that 'well, God does change'. I can understand the concept of the 'immutable nature of God', but the word tells us that Christ was also perfected in His sufferring. YHWH YHWH means 'I am becoming that I am becoming' and suggests an everlasting, ever living God. A hallmark of life is that it is always changing, otherwise it is simply an object.
God must experience love, hatred, jealousy, empathy, anger, kindness and vengance all at the same time - Unlike us who when we are angry take it out on everyone around us, God specifically expresses these 'states of existance' or 'emotion' with what He wants to feel them with, and only in His time. Above all He is good, and true to Himself, because there is none greater.
We are taught that there are certain times in history when God intervenes to change things according to His will - which is expressed in His word. Psalm 138:1-2 States that God values His Word higher than his Name, and yet we can see how intercession can bring forth a change in God's will (Moses when he interceeded for Israel).
The only way in which the immutable nature of God could be changed so that WE might live was through Jesus Christ (again I draw reference to His perfection through His suffering). It is why Jesus death bought forth life, because God has identified Himself with us through His perfect Son, and yet His immutable glory remains as radiant as ever.
Very nice T, i like your thought on that one...
Thanks Mark for the visit, nice to see you over here!!
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