Who Am Iናሙና

While he was in Pharaoh’s household, Moses murdered a man. After the murder, he took off to hide, so he became a shepherd. After forty years of shepherding, Moses was out watching his sheep, and he saw a bush on fire that didn’t burn up. Of course, he walked over to the bush to check it out. And there, God spoke to him from within it. After some conversation, God told Moses his name: I AM. Here, the God of the universe introduced himself to the murderer-turned-shepherd by name. God shared that He wanted Moses to lead His people out of slavery in Egypt, a huge task to complete! In the entirety of this exchange, it’s important to note that God never mentioned Moses’ shady past. In fact, over the next forty years leading people to the Promised Land, there is no record of God mentioning Moses’ murderous past to him. Not once! In the next forty years, God involved Moses in world-changing events: ten earth-shaking plagues, the Red Sea parting, the mountain-shaking deliverance of the Ten Commandments, and the Law. And in order for Moses to do all that God had in store for his journey, he had to believe his past was in the past. God obviously didn’t hold it against him. It didn’t disqualify him. And the same is true for us! The forgiveness of God is deep and wide, and our past mistakes and mess-ups hold no weight.

Today, pray that God would remind you that your sin holds no power over you. It’s been forgiven, and it does not count you out.