Daily Affirmations - Day 7 - What Basis? - I AM
- Alisa B.
- Aug 22
- 2 min read
Day 7: I AM
Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is His name?’ Then what shall I tell them?” God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you...’”
‘The Lord, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ “This is My name forever, the name you shall call Me from generation to generation" (Exodus 3:13-15).
No one is like you, Lord;
You are great, and Your name is mighty in power.
Who should not fear You, King of the nations?
This is your due.
Jeremiah 10:6-7
Two names God would be known by:
First, A name that speaks what He is in Himself, I AM that I AM. I AM the existing Being, or He Who Is… I AM He Who Is, and Who Will Be. That is, I am He that enjoys an essential, independent, immutable, and necessary existence, He that Is, and Was, and Is To Come.
It explains His name Jehovah, and signifies, first, That He is self- existent: He has His being of Himself, and has no dependence on any other. And being self-existent, He cannot but be self-sufficient, and therefore all-sufficient, and the inexhaustible fountain of being and blessedness.
Second, That He is eternal and unchangeable: the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever. For the words are with equal propriety rendered, I Will Be What I AM, or, I AM What I Will Be, or, I Will Be What I Will Be.
Other beings are, and have been, and shall be; but... their changeable, dependent, and precarious essence... scarce deserves the name of being.
There is another consideration which makes this name peculiarly applicable to God, namely that He is the fountain of all being and perfection, and that from Him all things have derived their existence; so that it is He alone that has life in Himself: and no creature, of whatever rank or order, has so much as an existence of its own: For in Him we live, and move, and have our being.
And though [many] of God’s attributes are, through His goodness, participated by His creatures, yet because they possess them in a way so inferior to that transcendent, peculiar, and divine manner in which they belong to God, the Scriptures seem absolutely to exclude created beings from any title to those attributes...
Third, That He is faithful and true to all His promises, unchangeable in His word, as well as in His nature; and not a man that He should lie. Let Israel know this; I AM hath sent me unto you.
~ Benson Commentary
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