{"id":89,"date":"2011-10-17T14:30:08","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T19:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/?p=89"},"modified":"2017-03-18T07:46:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-18T11:46:22","slug":"the-same-i-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/2011\/10\/17\/the-same-i-am\/","title":{"rendered":"The Same I AM…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"i-am\"<\/a>It’s a ‘classic’ \u00a0Bible story.<\/p>\n

Moses, having somewhat recently taken the life of an Egyptian, has fled from the comfortable life he knew as the ‘grandson’ of the then\u00a0Pharaoh and traded it in for the life of a nomadic Midianite. The man who had\u00a0likely\u00a0tasted the best of what \u00a0civilization at that time had to offer, was now shepherding in a barren land far from the comfort he had known.<\/p>\n

What we know that he was certain of was that \u00a0the race of people he\u00a0truly\u00a0identified with, was being\u00a0oppressed\u00a0and he was powerless to do\u00a0anything\u00a0about it.<\/p>\n

Many of us who have committed our\u00a0full time\u00a0careers to\u00a0making\u00a0God’s truth known to the world, whether we be on the\u00a0training\u00a0side or the\u00a0front line\u00a0side, feel the same way. The race of human beings that are all a part of is being brutally\u00a0oppressed\u00a0by the curse of sin! And really what can any of us, in and of ourselves do about it?<\/p>\n

Nothing.<\/p>\n

But, God who revealed himself as Yahweh, I AM who I AM<\/strong>, communicated that He, the all-powerful, self\u00a0existent\u00a0One, would rescue Moses’ brothers and sisters, the Israelites and He would simply use Moses as a means of exerting that power.<\/p>\n

And for us, now thousands of years later, in spite of all that technology and civilization give us the power to do, though we find ourselves helpless, that same I AM, communicates through His word, that He’s the One who will both give us the desire to obey Him and the energy to obey and be the means by which He can work. What remains to be done on our part or on the part of Moses, those many years ago when he found himself transfixed by a voice coming from a flaming bush? All that remains is for us to choose to trust Him to do what He says He will and then for us to walk in that trust.<\/p>\n

Church Planter, Craig Schafer, part of a team of three families working to learn the tribal language of the people of in the Kora Valley in the Asia Pacific region, came and challenged our student and staff body this morning, to consider that the same I AM, the same Yahweh who called Moses to trust Him, is the one who is calling on us, the Church, to continue in faith! We’re to continue to let God, the all powerful one, work in us, amazing and foolish as it seems, to see the curse of sin, rendered powerless as more and more people come to trust the work of this very God!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s a ‘classic’ \u00a0Bible story. Moses, having somewhat recently taken the life of an Egyptian, has fled from the comfortable life he knew as the ‘grandson’ of the then\u00a0Pharaoh and traded it in for the life of a nomadic Midianite. The man who had\u00a0likely\u00a0tasted the best of what \u00a0civilization at that time had to offer, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":782,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1037,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-89","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ministry","7":"tag-thoughts","8":"tag-tribal","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/782"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}