As the Lord places His call upon the life of Moses, the reluctant apointee registers five different reasons why, at least from his perspective, he is the wrong man for the job. The very first gets our attention here: "Who am I...?"
The Lord does not reply with some profound or esoteric philosophical gem of wisdom. Rather, He seems to ignore the question by showing Moses that he is missing the main point. It is not the identity of Moses that matters. It is the identity of God that is of great import. Here we find disclosed to Moses the Name most often used in the Old Testament: Yahweh or Jehovah. It is used almost 7000 times and is found in English Bibles as the word LORD with all capitals.
Now, add to Jehovah the Hebrew Name for God - Elohim (found 2300 times) - and His identity is even more heightened. Let's pile on one more Name. While the word is not found in this passage, the truth of its meaning is evident. Adonai - Almighty - found aboutr 450 times. Add up these numbers and you are just shy of 10,000. Place the three words together - Jehovah Elohim Adonai - and we have Lord God Almighty!
Who Moses is, who I am and who you are must be seen with the spotlight shining of Jehovah Elohim Adonai - the Lord God Almighty.
To make application of this in practical terms, we could say that the Lord God Almighty should be the First and the Last...The Beginning and the End...the Alpha and the Omega...or, in the English Alphabet, the A to Z.
Therefore "Who am I?" must be answered with Jehovah Elohim Adonai, the Lord God Almighty standing at center stage. Here is my A to Z of the person that I am and want to be becuase of the Lord God Almighty's work in and through me. I am...
...the ambassador for the Almighty
...the bringer of the Bible
...the captive of the Christ
...the disciple of the destroyer of death
...the evangelist of eternal life
...the forgiven of the Father in heaven
...the gossiper of the Gospel
...the herald of the heavenly message...the house of the Holy Spirit
...the impassioned worshipper of Immanuel
...the joy found in Jesus
...the kid of the King
...the liberated of the Lamb of God...the lame one now leaping
...the minsiter ofthe Messiah
...the namesake of the Name above all names
...the owned of the One and Only
...the property of the Prince of Peace
...the quick quoter of the Word of God
...the reprobate who is now redeemed
...the sinner who has been saved
...the traitor who has been transformed
...the united with the Unchangeable One....the utensil of the Uplifted One
...the validation of the victory in Jesus
...the witness of the Word of Life
...the yielded, so I say, Yes, Lord
...the zealot whose name is not Zephaniah
We may have the same questions that paralyzed Moses. We may have the same excuses that brought Mosos to the brink of yoin AWOL.
So, our Lord has the same words for us that He had for Moses:
- Jehovah Elohim Adonai will be with you!
- The Lord God Almighty is sending you!
