I am who am

Thinking about God, it is easy to surmise that the concept of God is merely that a concept or idea. The notion of God is man made, a trumped up farce, a construct of man's creative genius. Thus, God is, simply put, an imaginary friend that fills the void and thus creates meaning and purpose in life.

The notion of God simply helps us get on with life; it is a construct that directs and controls our behavior. The hardness of life is soften by the blow of the idea of God.

Many modern thinkers, so called intellectuals, choose this argument for the existence or nonexistence of God.

But, when you look at the revelation of God's name in Exodus something quite unique is present.

God reveals his name to Moses, "I am who am." Here in lies something new and not created. The revelation of God's name shows forth that the existence of God is not primarily about us or what we think about God or of God.

Faith in the final analysis begins and ends not with what we think about God but rather that God reveals himself as one who thinks about us.

God, the great I am, sees the affliction, hears the cries, knows the suffering. He is intimately involved in our life, our history, our world. He thinks about us.

This is where faith begins.

I can know God because I am known; I can love because I am already loved.

God sees and thus sees us through.

Thus the presence of God who thinks of us does not demand a leap of faith into the darkness of obscurity for the darkness already contains God who is ever present, who is always there no matter where there might be.

I am who am accompanies us and thus the darkness is not really dark at all and the leap of faith is really an acceptance of his sweet and gentle embrace.