Read Exodus 3:10-15 and Exodus 4:10-17.

We find out God’s plan for delivering the Israelites from the slavery they face in Egypt as we
read Exodus 3:10, His plan is Moses. This should be in some ways a reminder of God’s plan in
Genesis, to rescue and bless His people through one man. Here again, God’s plan is to use a
man to rescue His people from the slavery they are facing. As Moses responds to this plan, we
learn a little bit about him. He seems nervous, not very confident, anxious, maybe even scared,
but while we learn a little about Moses, we learn much more about God.

Exodus 3:10-14
“So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.”
But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of
Egypt?” And God said, “I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you:
When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain.”
Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has
sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?”
God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent
me to you.’”

We learn that God wants to be Moses’ source of confidence, rather than Moses being his own
source of confidence. Then, when Moses questions who exactly this God is and what he should
tell the Egyptians when they ask what God’s name is, God replies with one of the deepest and
most complicated, yet simple and understandable statements in scripture about who He is...“I
am who I am”.

We could mine the depths of this statement and never reach the bottom, but here is the basis
of what God is telling Moses when he asks God for His name. Before you get my name Moses,
you need to understand my being. “I am who I am”, I have always been and will always be. I am
eternal and unchanging. There has never and will never be a moment where I don’t exist and
am not God. Even more so, what I say is eternal. You can trust my words, that they will not fail
because they reflect my eternal and unchanging being. I am the same yesterday as today and I
will be the same tomorrow.

This is the God that tells Moses, “I will be with you”. Moses, my infinite power will be on your
side. Because of this, you have no reason to fear. In Exodus 4, Moses tells God that he isn’t
confident, or good at speaking. God replies with this, “Who gave human beings their mouth or
the ability to speak?” Moses, was it not me? You can trust in me and walk confidently in front of
Pharoah because I am on your side. Don’t trust in yourself and your own strength, trust in your
God and His strength.

What are you facing today? A sin struggle you can’t seem to overcome? A home or school
situation that you’re not sure if you have the strength to keep walking through? Stop relying on
your own strength and ability and rely on God’s. His strength and power is always sufficient for
you and will never fail you. Trust in His unchanging nature, that the same God that we read
about in Exodus 3 and 4, still is and will be with you in whatever you face, through faith in His
son Jesus.

Questions to consider.

1. How would trusting that God is over all and more powerful than anything you face
change your day-to-day life?

2. Where in your life do you try to rely on your own strength?

3. What are some things you have trusted in that have changed or failed? Take some time
and thank God that He has never failed you or let you down and He never will.