He is My Everything

Consider the passage and message of Exodus 3:11: “And Moses said unto God, who am I that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?” This is very unlike the man who, forty years before, supposed that his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them.  Such is man ! Noticed at one time too hasty, and at another time too slow. Moses had been taught a great deal since the day in which he smote the Egyptian.  Moses viewed only himself, and therefore manifestly lacked confidence in God. Now, if I am merely looking at myself, it shall  profit me nothing; but if I am looking at Christ, “I can do all things through Him.”  (Phil.4:13). When the frightened and timid Moses said,  “Who am I,”  God’s  answer  was,  “I will be with thee.”  (Ex.3:12).   This  should  have been sufficient. If God be with us, it makes little difference who I am! When God says, “I will send thee,” and “I will be with thee,” the servant is amply furnished with divine authority, and he ought, therefore, to be perfectly satisfied to go forth.

            However, Moses places another question for the human heart to notice. “When I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?” (Ex.3:13). God’s answer to Moses was, “Thus shall thou say unto the children  of  Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.” (Ex.3:14). We may say, That was alright for Moses, but what about us today . . . What meaning does that have for me now?

            Today we follow Christ, and He is the same I AM to us today as the I AM was to Moses. If we want life, Christ says, I am the life”, if we want peace, He is our peace; if we want wisdom and redemption, He has made all these things available for us! If we want to know the way, He said “I am the way.” In fact consider all that He is to us. “I AM the bread of life” . . . “I AM the door” . . . “I AM the good shepherd” . . . “I AM the light of the world” . . . “I AM the vine”, and much more! Without God, Moses was nothing, and without Christ we have no hope, and without hope we are nothing. He is my way to salvation, my way to contentment, my way to a peaceful death, and my way to my eternal home in Heaven!  O  the  joy  to  know  that  “He  Is  My  Everything!

. . . .  Fred  House