This was God's response to Moses, when he asked God what His name was. "I am who I am." I was thinking and praying into this yesterday and asking our Father what that really meant. His response was very convicting.
"I am not the God of your father."
"I am not the God of your mother."
"I am not the God of your friends."
"I am who I am...not who you or they think I am."
oohhh...ouch! This immediately led to a time on my face asking our Father to reveal to me all my misconceptions, misunderstandings and just flat out wrong thoughts about Him and who He is. I realized many of these were just what I had come to learn and believe through family, friends, teachers and various other folks in my life. All well meaning folks, but all just people in the end with their own filters.
I then read Deuteronomy 30:11-14-- "Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. It is not up in heaven, so that you have to ask, "Who will ascend into heaven to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?" Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you have to ask, "Who will cross the sea to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?" No, the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so you may obey it."
Do you see the great invitation in this truth? "Come, sit at me feet, in my Presence and learn from Me. I will reveal Myself to you and you will know I am who I say I am!
When was the last time you accepted your Father's invitation to sit at His feet and let Him speak to you?
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When was the last time any of us easily let God be God? To me that is one of the prime examples Christ shows us in the Garden - 'Thy will be done' - that is, You be God, and I accept whatever it is that You will to happen. Something that I find almost impossible for me to do is to pray with no vested interest in the outcome, just pray that I will be able to recognize and accept God's will in whatever situation, no matter how unfair or senseless it seems to me. I want things to make sense, and I want to see the end of the story, and when I'm hip deep in the trenches, I really would like a quick and decisive end to the conflict. (Can you tell I'm in the middle of the teen-aged years?). I have a very hard time giving it up to God, and that is my daily struggle. Thy will be done.
ReplyDelete"I want to sit at your feet, take the cup from your hand, lean back against you. Feel your heart beat. This love that I feel is more than I can stand...."
ReplyDeleteI have to say my views of God have always been taken from others. Now that I have truly learned to open my heart and trust God, He is revealing Himself to me a little more each day. And it is beautiful!