Sinclair Ferguson

We became, we were becoming, and we were.

but God is simply I am.

He is the great I am.

He didn't become, He's not becoming, and He has no ending.

God simply is.

He is all He is, and He always is all He is.

And however simple the words, I am, seem to be, they're really beyond us to grasp.

Truly, His greatness none can fathom.

It's just too much for our little minds to be able to comprehend.

That's why we speak about the incomprehensibility of God.

We truly know Him, but we can't wrap our minds round the I am.

If I try to think simply of that name, my mind begins to reel and stagger, doesn't yours?

I'm able to grasp only things that have come into being and change, and then die.

The harder I try to understand one who is without beginning or ending, who has not been caused by something else, the more I'm likely to get a headache.

How can there be anything that doesn't have a beginning, that doesn't have a prior cause, someone who simply is?

When I think of that, I realize it's beyond me.

But here's something important, something that saves us from getting a headache that might make our brains explode.

I Am wanted Moses and his people to know who he really is.

He wanted them to know him.

And what he also makes clear is that he wanted them to know he saw their need and he cared about them and he was going to save them.