Yesterday we were asking the question, what is God like? Who is he? And we were reminding

ourselves that this is exactly the question Moses asked God at the burning bush in Exodus

Chapter 3.

That was a monumental moment, and you'll remember God's answer.

God said to Moses, I am who I am.

Say this to the people of Israel.

I am has sent me to you.

Say the Lord, 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.

God is the great I am.

You probably know this is the name that the Jewish people came to treat

with such reverence they wouldn't even pronounce it. If you hear the Hebrew Bible being read

by Jewish people, when they come to this name, they don't pronounce it. They say Hashem instead,

the name. I admire that instead, the name.

I admire that respect for the name of God, but we need to remember that he specifically said,

this is my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations.

He meant his people to know him as I am and to call him I am, not to hide his name, but

to know it, to say it, and to proclaim it throughout all generations and even to the ends of

the earth.

And yet there are some quite mysterious things about this revelation of who God really is,

aren't there?

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