I AM

I AM

“Tell them I AM sent you.” I AM (in Hebrew, YHWH) was the name God revealed to Moses in Exodus, and although the name had been used throughout Genesis, its true meaning had never been explained for Israel. The Hebrew people knew the name as a sound but didn't know what it meant. In Hebrew the name is spelled with four Hebrew consonants, which in English would look like this: YHWH. When vowels are put to it then it is 'Yahweh'.  

The name for God was not a special name that was not part of the Hebrew vocabulary, but was actually one of the words they were already familiar with. In other words, God declared who He was through the use of the Hebrew language. He was trying to portray who He was—the "self-existing one." Yahweh is the personal, covenant name of God, and that name is a perpetual testimony to his faithfulness to his promises.

In this next phase of the Philippians 4 Project, I will be studying the phrase, I AM, in a different way—the I AM statements that Jesus made.  These are the very words that Jesus said of Himself in order that we would understand who He is and what He means to mankind.
I hope you'll join me in discovering the truth as we begin with the next post on John 6:51: "I am the living bread..."