09/11/2026 – Day 2 – “The I Am of All I Ams”// “God replied to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM… This is my name forever; this is how I am to be remembered in every generation.” Exodus 3: 14-15 / Verses and commentary below
“It was by the second day that I realized that there would be no set time for the teacher’s coming. He came in the afternoon.
“Do you know the Name of God?”, asked the teacher.
“I don’t that I do.”
“It’s made of of four Hebrew lettters, the yud, the heh, the vav, and the heh: YWVH. It’s the most sacred of all names, so sacred some refuse to say it. And yet you say it all the time.”
“The sacred Name of God?” I replied. “How could I when I never knew it?”
“When you speak of yourself, you say the Name.”
“I don’t understand.”
“When you feel happy, you say, ‘I am happy.’ And when you’re not, you say ‘I am sad.’ When you tell others who you are, you say, ‘I am’ followed by your name.
“YWVH means ‘I Am.’ It’s the Name of the Eternal, the Name of God. His Name is I Am.“
“Then we all say His Name.”
“Yes. And you have always said it. It is woven into the fabric of existence that when you speak yourself, you must say His Name.”
“Why is that?”
“It’s because your existence comes from His existence. He is the I Am of all existence … the I Am of all I ams. Your I am only exists because of His I Am. And as you exist from Him, so it is only from Him that you can find the reason and purpose of your existence. Therefore, when you say your name, you must always speak His Name. And you must always speak His Name first.”
“Because…”
“Because His existence is first and your existence flows forth from His. That’s the flow of existence. Therefore, you must put Him first and then let everything flow from that. Let everything begin with Him and flow forth from Him. That’s the secret of life. To not only live for Him, but to live your life from Him, to live from His living, to move from His moving, to act from His actions, to feel from His heart, to be from His being, and to become who you are from who He is … I am.” “
The Mission: Today, learn from the secret of living each moment from His life, doing from His doing, loving from His love, and being from His being.
Exodus 3: 14-15; Acts 17:28.
The I Am Mysteries
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“God replied to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” This is what you are to say to the Israelites: I AM has sent me to you.” God also said to Moses, “Say this to the Israelites: *Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever; this is how I am to be remembered in every generation.” Exodus 3: 14-15
Commentary from “The Apologetics Study Bible”:
“3:14-15 Why did God tell Moses to say, “I AM has sent me,” but then later to say, “the LORD has sent me”? The Hebrew words translated “I AM and “the LORD” are two forms derived from the same Hebrew verb. Though “I AM” is not reused as a name for God in the Old Testament . “The LORD” is used more than 5,000 times. The phrase “the LORD”, is a rendering of the Hebrew word YHWH (“Yahweh”) that seems to mean “He [Who] Causes to Be.” This translation of God’s name into English as a title, rather than a personal name, is a way of showing reverence for Him; it continues a tradition that predates Christianity and is reflected in the NT (see Acts 2:21). Jewish readers, coming to the divine name in the text, substituted the word ‘Adonai, “Lord,” and the Masoretic scribes inserted the vowel signs (“points”) for ‘Adonai‘ in the word YHWH as a reminder. In some older English translations YHWH is rendered “Jehovah,” a form derived from combining the vowel sounds for ‘Adonai’ with the consonants for YHWH.“
“From one man He has made every nation of men to live all over the earth and has determined their appointed times and the boundaries of where they live, so that they might seek God, and perhaps they might reach out and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us. For in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’ ” Acts 17:26-28
For background, Commentary again from “The Apologetics Study Bible”:
“17:22-31. A model apologist. Paul developed an argument (natural theology) based on God’s self-revelation in nature (natural revelation; see Romans 1:19-32) to build bridges – and to challenge prevailing beliefs. He complimented the Athenians evident religious inclinations, drew upon observable data from the natural world regarding God’s nature, identified this God for them, established a relationship between God and the humans, and even marshaled evidence from the pagan (Stoic) poets for his analysis (Epimenides; Aerates, who hailed from Paul’s own Cilicia).”
Soli Deo Gloria indeed!