God is supreme. I am not.

We don’t define who God is. He defines Himself.

We know God by faith and by experiencing Him through that walk of faith.

On Sunday, June 1, 2025, our pastor emphasized these points as he took us through Exodus 3:13-15, which continues with the story of God talking to Moses through the burning bush.

God tells Moses that he will lead the Israelites out of Egypt, so Moses asks God who shall he say is sending him.

God replies in verse 14, “Say this to the people of Israel; ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”

In this verse, God emphatically tells Moses His identity. He is I AM.

As the great I AM, God shows that He cannot be defined by anyone other than Himself. He is not defined by what we feel or think we need from Him. He just is.

He’s not just a God of justice and might. He is not just a God of mercy and lovingkindness. He is all those things and more. He is supreme.

God has no rival or equal to Him. There is no equivalent to God but God Himself.

God is sending Moses to the Egyptian land of the lesser gods, and He wants the Israelites to know that He is the I AM in totality–in everything.

The sermon’s three main points were:

God is not a construct.
God is infinitely sufficient.
God is not me.

These points have to be read with a mindset of humility. Moses is not I AM, and I am not I AM. God is. God is in charge, and He is the one who is in control.

This belief transfers to establishing my own identity. Meaning, there is a God, and I am not Him.

This statement actually gives me grace because I know who God is, and I know who I am–and therefore, I know how I fit in His creation.

I am not the great fixer. I am not the savior of people’s problems. Instead, I am in need of a sovereign God to walk with me through life. His sovereignty establishes my identity.

Then finally, the sermon illustrates the story of Jesus when He is talking to the Pharisees, and “Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am."” (John 8:58)

This declaration of Jesus claiming His supreme deity so infuriated the religious leaders that they tried to stone Him to death.

The reason they wanted to end Jesus was because they knew what Jesus meant when He claimed to be the I AM.

He was asserting His Lordship. He was claiming to be God.

Jesus is the same God who appeared to Moses in the burning bush.

The sooner we come to this realization, the quicker we can begin to live life trusting Him and knowing Him by faith.

And then the Ann who IS NOT can worship and follow the Jesus who is I AM.

—Ann Elizabeth Yeager