The fool asks, “If God made the universe, who made God?” We don’t believe in made gods.
It’s exciting being a confidant of God. The New Testament describes God’s people this way: “Having made known to us the mystery of His will” (Eph 1:9). But He doesn’t let us in on His secret plans just to satisfy our curiosity. No, “it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure” (Php 2:13). And so it was with Moses. “Come now, therefore,” said the Lord, “and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people…out of Egypt” (Ex 3:10). If it was a sudden drop in his career from prince to sheep herder, what a dramatic promotion to be the personal representative of God to the most powerful man on earth! I know it would take my breath away. So begins the back-pedaling. “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh?” (v 11). I think you have the wrong man for the job. Oh no, said the Lord, I’m not sending you on your own. “I will certainly be with you” (v 12). And I’ll make a promise, said the Lord. I guarantee that you and the whole nation will serve Me here at this mountain. Originally called Horeb, it was renamed Sinai, from seneh, a bush, for obvious reasons. B-b-but, Moses might have begun, “when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ what shall I say…?” (v 13). Listen to this! “I AM WHO I AM.” He is not like Hapi, the river god, who needs the clouds to feed it, nor like Ra, the sun god, who consumes 600 million tons of hydrogen per second. The true God needs no enriching and is never diminished by giving. How thankful we are that “God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work” (2 Cor 9:8).