Who is God to you?

There's a question that every single person on this Earth needs to answer in their lifetime and it's this: "Who is God to you?" We all come from different belief systems from fully trusting God with our lives to not believing in God at all. But regardless of your beliefs, there comes a point in your life where you must seriously answer the question "Who is God to you?"

One of my favorite sections of the Bible is from Exodus 3 where Moses has an encounter with God that forever changed his life. Exodus 3 starts off with Moses working in the fields, going through the motions of life. I think we all have the potential to fall into the pitfalls of staleness where we believe our life is insignificant. At this point in Moses' journey, life was not real because God wasn't real to him.

As we continue to read Exodus 3, we see that God reveals Himself to Moses in the form of a burning bush. God was calling Moses to a higher purpose - to free the Israelites who were enslaved to Pharaoh. What Moses didn't realize at the time was that God's mission to free the Israelites was more so to free Moses from a life of nothingness. The majority of the time God puts us on a journey or a mission, it's more about His working in us, then the work itself.

Moses cannot possibly fathom that his life is meant for this. In fact, he repeatedly tells God that he is not qualified for the job. No matter how many times Moses pleads with God, God responds with the phrase, "I AM who I AM." God was telling Moses that life is insignfigant without a genuine, real relationship with God. We are simply nothing apart from God. Our lives are nothing without God. Our purpose is meaningless without God. What we accomplsih in this life, who we are in this life is all about God and not about us. In Exodus 3 God is basically telling Moses, "you do not need to worry about accomplsihing this grand mission because I am working in you." I AM who I AM." Moses' life is forever changed because he realizes that his identity in life is directly connected to the presence of the Almighty God.

So who is God to you? Whatever question you have about life or about God, read God's responses to Moses in Exodus 3 - "I AM who I AM." God wants to be your everything. Everything you are, everything you do is all about God living in you. This means that I do not need to worry about planning the next step in my life, because God is in control. This means I do not need to worry about controlling my finances because God is the Lord over my finances. This means I do not need to worry about being insignificant because God lives in me and will use me. This means I do not need to worry about the pitfalls of life because God is everything I need.

We cannot live the life of meaning we were meant to live until we let God be God in our lives.