GOD’S WORD FOR AUGUST 20 ~ ~ Genesis 14:22 ~ ~ “Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have sworn to the Lord God Most High (Jehovah El Elyon) Possessor of heaven and earth.”

Dr. Tony Evans from his book, The Power of the Names of God

God will often allow us to be in a situation with no possible solution. This is so we can discover that HE is our solution. He lets us hit rock bottom in order for us to learn that He is the rock at the bottom. He’ll put us between a rock and hard place—a situation that seems confusing, incongruent, and chaotic. And He will often do this when He’s getting ready to reveal something new about Himself to us, just as He did with Moses.

As we saw at the beginning of the chapter, God revealed Himself to Moses in the burning bush. Moses was out shepherding his flock of sheep, kicking rocks along the mountainside, and looking at the same bushes he’d seen for decades when suddenly, something didn’t make sense. He saw a bush on fire, and yet it wasn’t being burned up. Because of this he went to investigate. Because he went to investigate, he got to know God and His will in a way like none other.

Perhaps something in your life doesn’t quite make sense. Maybe it even seems like a contradiction. It could be a conflict you’re facing, a decision to make, a health or financial issue, a rocky marriage, a wayward child…any number of things. But whatever it is, I want to encourage you…based on the name of JEHOVAH, who is the self-revealing one…to be careful not to simply look at the bush that is burning. Don’t get so mesmerized by the contradiction itself that you miss God, who wants to talk to you through the burning bush.

When Abraham was told to go up the mountain and sacrifice his son Isaac, he could have gotten stuck by just staring at the problem. Sacrificing the promised child of his own inheritance and legacy made no sense. Yet in the middle of that seemingly nonsensical situation, Abraham obeyed and looked beyond the problem, and God revealed Himself to him. JEHOVAH showed up and gave Abraham a ram to sacrifice instead.

When God wants to show you a side of Him you’ve never seen before, He usually does it in the middle of a mess, a problem, a circumstance…a burning bush. Don’t look only at the bush because JEHOVAH is using that situation to reveal something about Himself to you. But remember, God didn’t reveal Himself to Moses until Moses turned aside. Moses stopped what he was doing and turned to see what was going on. Sometimes in the business of life…the tyranny of the tedious tasks that go on day in and day out…we fail to turn aside.

We fail to take notice when God is trying to get our attention. Had Moses failed to turn aside, he might have missed hearing from God about His supernatural plan for his life…a plan Moses could have never come up with on his own.

In fact, when he heard it, he became afraid. He started making excuses about why he couldn’t do what God had said. He put himself down and reminded God that he couldn’t even speak well, let alone speak to Pharaoh.

To this, JEHOVAH replied, “Who has made man’s mouth? Or who makes him mute or deaf, or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord JEHOVAH? (Exodus 4:11) JEHOVAH is God interacting with His creation at a whole new level.

God made Moses and Moses’s mouth, and now he is interacting with Moses about the use of his mouth. He is directing, commanding, and exercising His authority over His own creation because He is not only ELOHIM, the great and powerful Creator, but He is also JEHOVAH, the Lord, Master and self-existent one.

In Genesis 1:1-2:3, we see God as ELOHIM creating His creation. In Genesis 2:4, God introduces a new name—JEHOVAH–and begins interacting with creation in a new way.

He becomes personally involved with the well being and purpose of His creation through His plan, will and interaction.

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