Seeing God’s Nature in the Call of Moses

Last week I wrote about how Moses was called and how he had his eyes on himself and not on God (see here). When I read about this in Exodus 3-4, I was also struck by how God reveals different aspects of himself as he demonstrates to Moses that he is the Almighty God. As I reflected on the passage I was stirred to praise as I marvelled at what a wonderful God we serve.

Moses asks God what his name is and God says ‘‘…I AM WHO I AM…’ (Exodus 3:14). God is incomparable (Isaiah 40:18) to anything else in all of creation therefore he has to define himself by himself. He is worthy of all our praise and honour. As Revelation 1:8 says ‘‘I am the Alpha and the Omega,’ says the Lord God, ‘who is and who was and who is…