GOD’S WORD FOR AUGUST 18 ~ ~ Isaiah 6:1 ~ ~ “ In the year of King Uzziah’s death I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted, with the train of His robe filling the temple.”

Tony Evans:

If ELOHIM is God’s creative and powerful name, JEHOVAH is God’s personal name. It’s the self-revealing name God gave when Moses asked, “What is Your Name?”

When we study the name ELOHIM, we study the God who is the Creator, and we can talk about His power, presence, and prowess. When we talk about JEHOVAH, we’re talking about His person, His character.

ELOHIM is the side of God who created the heavens and the earth. JEHOAH is the side of God who related to His creation personally. A person can believe in ELOHIM but don’t know the God in whom they believe (JEHOVAH). JEHOVAH is the God who personally reveals Himself to us, often through the trials and struggles we face.

One of the first characteristics we discover about JEHOVAH is that He is a person. He is the I AM. This is significant because it lets us know we don’t live in an impersonal universe as the evolutionists would have us believe. God isn’t a force who just moves about. He isn’t what we think of when we hear, “May the force be with you.” He is a living and very personal God who has emotions, intellect and will.

Yet, because He is also “I Am Who I Am” He is also a self-existing being. He doesn’t just exist, but rather exists IN HIMSELF.

In other words, NOTHING OUTSIDE OF HIM CONTRIBUTED OR CONTRIBUTES TO HIS EXISTENCE. All of us exist because we were created. We were preceded by parents. We are because they were. I am not because I am, and you are not because you are. If there was no them, there would be no you.

But when God formally introduced Himself to His people and to humanity, he told Moses in essence, “Tell them that the one who sent you doesn’t have to go outside of Himself to be Himself, for He is complete in Himself. “I Am Who I AM” In other words, God is the only truly independent being in the universe because He is the only being who is self-generating.

JEHOVAH’S self-existence includes His self-sufficiency, which reminds us that He is the great eternal one. Since He is self-generating, He perpetuates Himself throughout all eternity. You and I aren’t eternal on earth because we are dependent. But JEHOVAH is independent, so He needs only Himself to exist in the dimension where He lives. He is everlasting.

He is also immutable—meaning He never changes. We are forever changing. We’re getting older. But God doesn’t go through that aging process. He is who He was, and He is who He will be because the great I Am never steps out of the present tense. In other words, He is always NOW.

God can never become irrelevant because He is always current. A billion years from now, God will still be just as relevant as He was on day one because all creation depends on Him. You can’t get much more relevant than that.

I know this concept is challenging to comprehend simply because our linear, finite minds only understand what it means to go from one year to the next and then to the next. We go from here to there, yet God can go from here to there and back again all at the same time. He exists as the great I Am Who I Am.

Another aspect of God’s self-revelation is that He isn’t necessarily who we want Him to be. He is who He is, not who you or I want Him to be or choose to define Him as. So if you’re going to know who God is, you’ll have to let Him define Himself simply because He is not “I am who you say I am”

He is JEHOVAH, YAHWEH, YHWH, THE LORD—I AM WHO I AM

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