Exodus 3:13-15 (NIV) – Moses 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?” God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you.'” God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘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, the name you shall call me, from generation to generation.'”
Salvation and our answers in life to all our issues and needs are found in “I AM” and who He is. The answer to Moses’ fears and confusion were not in the details of the plan, but in the One who has the plan. God will accomplish His plan, in His name, on His terms, and for His glory and the people’s blessing. He did this in Christ for us, and in Christ His plan will continue to be accomplished in and through us, His Church.
In Jesus and the faith we have graciously been given, we live out God’s plan. His plan unfolds as our hearts and lives align under His name. “Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Phil. 2:9-11). This is the plan, this is what being saved is all about, and this is how God brings us into Plan A – to bring His glory and salvation in our generation.
Let’s pray and ask the Lord to bring every area of our lives under the Name (authority) of Jesus; and, that at His name in our lives we will bow and worship Him, we will joyfully follow Him, and we will obediently love like He loved us. Let’s end singing to, “Exalted Over All” by Vertical Worship.
– TR