He is Always ‘I AM’

I AM.  

Not ‘I was’. 

Not ‘I will be’.  

But, I AM. 

Father, Son, and Spirit are the ever-present-tense I AM.  Past, present, and future are terms only relevant to a temporal (chronos) world and He who fashioned that very world is distinct from it, existing first and foremost in kairos time.  

Consider…

- He was crucified ‘before the foundation of the world’.  Yes, that eternal, ever-present reality still had to be carried out in chronos time.  But because He is always ‘now’, spiritually speaking, there was never a time in which the Lamb wasn’t slain.  

- His first miracle was to disregard the natural order of time (‘My time has not yet come.’) and operate out of the eternal realm where the time is always NOW.  Jesus’ chronos time had not yet come, but Christ’s kairos time was unaffected. [I am in no way attempting to separate Jesus from Christ.  They are one in the same.  What I am attempting to convey is the fullness of His humanity AND the fullness of His divinity.]

Once God determines to do something, it’s functionally already done, always has been done, and always will be done.  THAT is the eternal creative nature of Love.  He is always ‘I AM’.  

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Passages to Ponder: 

Exodus 3:13-15 (NASB)
Then Moses said to God, “Behold, I am going to the sons of Israel, and I will say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you.’ Now they may say to me, ‘What is His name?’ What shall I say to them?” God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM”; and He said, “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’” God, furthermore, said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘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, and this is My memorial-name to all generations.

John 2:1-11 (NASB)
On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there; and both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding. When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus *said to Him, “They have no wine.” And Jesus *said to her, “Woman, what does that have to do with us? My hour has not yet come.” His mother *said to the servants, “Whatever He says to you, do it.” Now there were six stone waterpots set there for the Jewish custom of purification, containing twenty or thirty gallons each. Jesus *said to them, “Fill the waterpots with water.” So they filled them up to the brim. And He *said to them, “Draw some out now and take it to the headwaiter.” So they took it to him. When the headwaiter tasted the water which had become wine, and did not know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the headwaiter called the bridegroom, and *said to him, “Every man serves the good wine first, and when the people have drunk freely, then he serves the poorer wine; but you have kept the good wine until now.” This beginning of His signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and manifested His glory, and His disciples believed in Him.

Revelation 13:8 (DBH Translation)
And all those dwelling on the earth will make obeisance to him, everyone whose name has not been written in the book of the suckling lamb who has been slaughtered from the foundation of the cosmos.




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