Consider this word and consider how God speaks to us, His people, always Today, always in the present, always in the Now.
Here is a principle we can easily miss…consider how this is so prevalent and apparent that it is almost always missed.
We know that God’s WORD is solid and cannot be changed. We also know that He walks with His people ever in the now, never bound to the past.
We who are strict constructionists often hold staunchly to the letter, to strict and rigid readings and renderings of covenants and constitutions.
God is the same yesterday and today and forever, and in this He always is, has been and ever will be the God of the living, that is the God of the Now, not the God of the dead or what was or will be but what IS. His very name is
I AM.
So consider this.
God says
Do A
His people hear Him as always speaking in the present and always counter with a different multiple choice answer. They do B instead of A.
That being done, God in this new NOW, says do B. Once again, His people, hearing Him in the present saying do B, say now we want to do A or C. He says do B. They do C and some try to do A.
This is what happens.
God speaks in the Now, in the midst of the present circumstances with His instruction which involves our best. He said you will be taken to Babylon. That is what was certain to happen and it did. God’s instruction to His people is always faith and peace in the given situations. Are you hungry, give thanks. Are you in trouble, pray. Are you happy, sing songs. Are you being captured and moved to another land? Serve me there. Have you disobeyed and returned against my instruction? Stay here where you are and serve me here.
This is how God deals with His people who are ever wanting to do other than what God has placed right in front of us, right where we are.
He says serve me here. We want to leave and go elsewhere. He says go, we want to stay or go somewhere different. We disobey and come back where He told us to leave. He now says stay, so then we want to leave after the assassination, after we lose our job, after the grass turns brown and the vine withers.
I AM says remain in me
God says serve me wherever you are moved, wherever people take you.
Do they put you in prison? Serve me there.
Do they force you to walk a mile in their shoes? Keep walking with them.
Are they opposing you? Pray for them. Are they cursing you? Bless them.
I AM YOUR GOD I AM
I AM YOUR HEALER
I AM HERE
I AM THERE
I AM THE GOD OF NOW
I AM THE SAME
I AM SPEAKS NOW
TODAY, HEAR MY VOICE
YOU STUDY MY WRITTEN WORD
NOW HEAR MY VOICE TODAY
LISTEN AND OBEY NOW
I AM