• “We tend by a secret law of the soul to move toward our mental image of God… If we were able to extract from any man a complete answer to the question, ‘What comes to mind when you think about God?’ We might predict with certainty the spiritual future of that man.” 

EXODUS 34:4-7 

“Your name was your identity, your destiny, the truth hidden in the marrow of your bones. It was a one-word moniker for the truest thing about you - your inner essence. Your inner Tom-ness or Rut-ness.” JMC

• “YOU NAME IS YOUR NATURE”
• Abram to Abraham: “exalted Father” to “father of a multitude or father of many nations”

• Saul to Paul: “small or humble” 

EXODUS 3:9-14 (MSG) 

YAHWEH IS GOD (AUTHORITY)

• “Here’s how you know if you’ve created God in your own image: he agrees with you on everything. He hates all of the people you hate. He voted for the person you voted for. If you’re republican, so is he. If you’re a democrat, so is he. If you’re passionate about __________, then God is passionate about ___________. If you’re open and elastic about sexuality, so is he. And above all, he’s tame. You never get mad at him or blown away by him or scared of him. Because he’s controllable… And of course, he’s a figment of your imagination.” 

The Lord is my Shepherd [to feed, to guide and to shield me],
 I shall not want.

He lets me lie down in green pastures;
 He leads me beside the still and quiet waters.

He refreshes and restores my soul (life);
 He leads me in the paths of righteousness
 for His name’s sake.

Even though I walk through the [sunless] [a]valley of the shadow of death,
 I fear no evil, for You are with me;
 Your rod [to protect] and Your staff [to guide], they comfort and console me

PSALM 23

“WHAT WE LEARN FROM THE NAME OF YAHWEH IS THAT HE IS GOD AND WE ARE NOT.” And that’s a lot better than you being god. 

YAHWEH IS ALWAYS GOD (CONSISTENT) 

12 “I’ll be with you,” God said. “And this will be the proof that I am the one who sent you: When you have brought my people out of Egypt, you will worship God right here at this very mountain.”

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

JAMES 1:17

“WHAT WE LEARN FROM THE NAME OF YAHWEH IS THAT HE WILL DO WHAT HE SAID HE WILL DO.”

YAHWEH IS ABLE (POWERFUL)

But Moses said to the Lord, “Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either in the past or since you have spoken to your servant, but I am slow of speech and of tongue.” 11 Then the Lord said to him, “Who has made man's mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the Lord? 12 Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak.” 

EXODUS 4:10-12 

Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, 21 to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

EPHESIANS 3:20-21