"I Am"

When God called Moses I believe that it was unexpected, I think that after he had sinned and ran away from his home in Egypt, he thought that shepherding was what he would do for the rest of his life. The funny thing is that God always has a different plan and it always seems to deviate from what we want to do. His day must have began like any other day in which he went about tending his father-in-law's flock, little did he know that the tending of sheep was pretext for tending the Lord's people. As life would have it trouble came, and a sheep went missing; and like any good shepherd he left the many to go after the one. When he found the one that is when he found God, this was the day that he would be blessed by the presence of God. He went into the dark cavern blind to go after the sheep, his blind faith in going to find the sheep allowed him to find God. When he was able to see again he saw that he was in the Presence of the Most High, he was on Holy ground. I think that this is the best part of the story because God had to show Moses just who he was; he was the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He was a true and living God that suffered alongside His people. He was the God that put His spirit in the form a flame, in such a way that He set a tree aflame with His spirit and it did not burn. He was and still is the great "I Am". There is no other way for us to explain who and what God is, He is all you will ever need. (Exodus 3:13-14)
"And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?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."

I believe that Moses was more than afraid to go back to his home in Egypt, not just because he had an impossible task but because he had a people and a brother that he had scorned. Even through all that Moses dealt with God constantly and repeatedly told Moses that He was the "I Am". God told Moses this many times because he wanted the notion and the understanding to sink in that "I Am everything that you need and more". Even through all of that God gave Moses the strength to do what he needed, God gave Moses the authority of the "I Am". If we as men start to look to God in the face of every adversary and say to our enemies that with the power of the "I Am" I can do all things, with this authority we have the power to become the men that we are supposed to be, this is the way that we draw nigh unto the spirit of God, the now and forever "I Am". The power of the "I Am" is also used with authority by our lord Jesus, which this authority was instrumental in establishing his kingdomship, if we learn and understand that this power is accessible to us, we can change the very fabric of reality just like Moses did. With the authority of the "I Am" bestowed on Moses by God, the Lord parted the Red Sea through Moses; and with the power of the "I Am" Jesus was able to carry the burden of sin in the fullness, he was able to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days; not only did he do that but he tore the veil of the law that separated us from the face of God.
Amen.