And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM, and He said, ‘Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you’. Exodus 3:14
Today’s text is God’s response when Moses asked what he was to say when the children of Israel asked him what was God’s name. Moses was to spend the next 40 years proving the validity of God’s response. Israel was blessed mightily by the One Who was all that His great name entailed. They marvelled at the miraculous deliverance from Egypt and the crossing of the Red Sea, they were sheltered and fed as they crossed the wilderness, and they were victoriously ushered into the promised land.
Our thoughts as we gather today to break bread are centered on the Lamb of God, Who came into the world and went to the cross to suffer, bleed and die. Let us never lose sight of the fact that the One who died on the cross was none other than the One who appeared to Moses in the burning bush. He was none other than the God who delivered and led the children of Israel to their promised land.
Those who witnessed the arrest and trial of Jesus did not appreciate His greatness. Those who gathered at Golgotha to mock and taunt Him in His sufferings were unappreciative and considered Him to have been defeated and disposed of.
But the great I AM was not there in weakness, He was manifesting the greatest power ever displayed upon this planet. On the cross, the I AM provided a greater deliverance than that provided to the children of Israel. We bow today in the presence of I AM. -Jim MacIntosh