Devotion:
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Read Exodus 3:13-14.
When Moses asked for the name of the one who spoke to him from the burning bush, he was, whether innocently or intentionally, asking for a sharing of God’s power. The answer, “I am who I am” sounds a bit evasive to us. Another translation of the Hebrew used here is “I will be that I will be.” Both of these translations show God as always existing, eternal, and never changing. If Moses needed a name, God told Moses he can say that I AM has sent him.
God was the hope of the Children of Israel, enslaved and harshly treated for generations in Egypt. God was sending Moses to bring them out for freedom from bondage, and God would be with them on their journey to the Promised Land. Just as God was their hope, God is also our hope today; and God is with us on our journeys. As we continue in our sermon series, exploring the nature and identity of Jesus Christ, we recall that the Son reveals the nature of the Father. But it is good to start this week with God’s own declaration to Moses of who He is. Our hope is in the Great I Am!
Personal Worship Option:
Almighty God, as we study about you and seek to know you personally, it is good to remember that you are the Great I Am, who is and will always be. We are the objects of your creation, and we humbly bow before you. In the name of your Son, Amen.

