Struggling with his calling to go to the pharaoh & the Israelites bound in Egyptian slavery, Moses raised two key objections.
His first: “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and that I should bring the Israelites out of Egypt?” (Ex. 3:11). God’s answer was revealing—He rightly restored Himself as the center of the narrative (Ex. 3:12).
Moses’s second objection, in essence, is “Who are you?” (Ex 3:13). God’s answer was again revealing: “I AM WHO I AM” (Ex. 3:14). No human in all of history can make that claim. We are because our parents were first. A.W. Tozer writes, “Man is a created being, a derived and contingent self, who of himself possesses nothing but is dependent each moment for his existence upon the One who created him after His own likeness” (1961, emphasis mine).
Only God can say, “I AM THAT I AM.” The rest of us say, “I am because He is.”
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A.W. Tozer. (1961). The Knowledge of the Holy. New York: Harper Collins.
