Exodus 3:2 – “The angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from within a bush. He looked, and the bush was ablaze with fire, but it was not being consumed!”

As I read, prayed, and meditated on the Word of God today, I heard a captivating and challenging question in my heart.   “Who is God?”   As I read in Exodus about the encounter of Moses at the burning bush, the question came.    It was expanded as I meditated. “Who is God to you?” That personalized it powerfully.   It reminded me of Jesus’s question and Peter’s response to the disciples.

In Exodus 3:2, an angel of God appeared to Moses in a flame of fire in the bush.   Fire in the desert would consume and reduce to ashes all it touched.   The fire of God illuminates but does not destroy the obedient.

God called Moses and commissioned him with a gargantuan task—to deliver Israel.   Moses asked, “What is the name of the one by whom I am sent? What name do I tell the people?”   They believed in the God of Abraham.   People today believe in the God of the Bible, at least as a concept.

In Exodus 3:14, in the Aramaic to English translation, God’s answer to Moses was, “I am AHIAH ASHAR HIGH (that is, THE LIVING GOD); and He said, Thus shall you say to the children of Israel: AHIAH has sent me to you.”

That’s where I was challenged.  Who is God to me?   Is He truly THE LIVING GOD living in me, operating through me, and being my All, or is He a concept or theory that I profess belief in but without the manifestation of His power?

Moses tried diligently to convince God that he (Moses) was inadequate for the task.   That was one of the reasons God could use him.   He was not filled with his own importance but dependent upon God.   Moses left that encounter having been transformed from believing in the historical God of his ancestors to a faith in THE LIVING GOD experientially.   That transformation is necessary for us to become who He says we are.

The question is, “Who is God? Who is God to us personally?”     Is He THE LIVING GOD? Hebrews 13:8 reminds us that Jesus is eternally the same.   We also read that He resides in our hearts by faith.   We read that the life we now live in the flesh we live by, with, and through the Son of God. Christ in us… Christ through us… Christ with us…

THE LIVING GOD waits to be THE GOD WHO LIVES to us so that He can be THE LIVING GOD through us.

Are you tired of being defeated by the devil?   Then, let the Holy Spirit open the eyes of your heart to see Him as AHIAH ASHAR HIGH – The Living God!    The Living God is undefeatable, and those in Him are undefeatable. Who is God to you?

May the God Who is and Who Lives be the Living God to you!