Who is this Stranger Anyway?
When Moses was tagged
by God to bring the slaves out of Egypt
“Moses, I want you to go tell Pharaoh to let my people go.” No little task this.
“And if I go and someone asks who sent me,
what should I to tell them?”
“Tell them that ‘I am’ sent you.”
Now, where is this conversation going? All Moses could get from God was, “I am Who I
am.”
“O.K., Lord, I think that’s fairly evident,
I guess I can say the same, ‘I am who I am’.
“Yes, Moses, but I have always been ‘I am’,
you haven’t. I am everything I need to
be; you’re not. What I am is always
enough, your I am is never enough. You
will never understand the full meaning of my “I amness”. Don’t try, just believe it and say it and act
like it.”
A good while later . . .
“Yessir, Lord, but how does it work?”
“See that body of water (wide, deep Red Sea
“Yes, Lord, it is all too obvious to me! I
can’t get this people across’ who’s going to do it?”
“I am!”
“You are?”
“Wrong way to say it, Moses. Don’t question
who I am!”
“O.K., Lord, you are!”
Enter sounds of roaring wind, rushing,
splashing, retreating water and gasping Israelis, and suddenly a super freeway
appears between two high walls of water.
“Wow, Lord, how’d that happen.”
“It’s simple, Moses: I said, ‘I am’, you
agreed and said ‘you are’ and what happened made the whole watching world say,
‘He really is!”
So from then on (except the notable time
Moses disobeyed God and bought the farm) it was the same:
God said, “I am,” Moses said, “You are,” and
the world watched a miracle and said, “He is, He really is!”
And that’s how it is, Walter! That’s how it
really is and that’s how it really works.
Think about it!
