![]() No wonder the religious Jewish people were upset! While these self-revealing comments by Jesus are powerful and provocative for us, the people around Jesus would have recognized what he was doing and saying. I will be found by you…” ( Jeremiah 29:13-14, ESV).Ĭenturies later, when Jesus used it to describe Himself to His disciples, He was referring back to these expressions every time and not-so-subtly declaring that He is the I AM. God promised His people through the prophet Jeremiah: “You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. This is because God always wanted His people to know Him ever since sin separated humanity from Him in the Garden of Eden. He is Immanuel, which means “God with us.” Really, Jesus’ coming was the culmination of God already revealing Himself to us in so many ways. ![]() He is a relational being that we can know personally. The God of the universe is not just some mysterious voice behind a curtain. These descriptive statements explain the character and nature of God through significant phrases that all begin with “I Am.” These are not Jesus’ only statements about himself, but they stand out in a unique way.Īlthough we cannot comprehend the complexities of what God is (as in all-powerful, always present, and all-knowing), the great thing is that we can know who he is because he has revealed Himself to us through His Son, Jesus Christ. Jesus was especially self-revealing in his “I Am” statements found in the gospels (specifically in the Book of John). He does this through nature, personal spiritual interactions, and (most importantly) the revelation of himself through his Son, Jesus Christ that we get to read about in the Bible. Thankfully, God has gone to the extreme to make himself known to us. Knowing about someone is just the first step toward actually knowing them. It is no surprise that social psychology says that actually knowing someone requires personal and private knowledge coming from being with someone over time and building up a level of trust so that they let you in. But looking back now, I actually knew very few people I just knew about a lot of people. While my college was considered “small” (around 2,000 students), I would say that I knew most of them. ![]() ![]() I used to pride myself on my ability to know a lot of people. ![]()
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