When Moses asks what God’s name is, the answer is given: “I am who I am” (Exodus 3:14). Not only is this a declaration that God is beyond words and categories, but also that God is a verb. We often think of God as a noun – as someone, somewhere. But God is beyond nouns, someone bound by time and space. He is Spirit, a force that moves. He is love, a power that connects. He is Word, a declaration that creates. God is dynamic and moving, and we know God by his actions – his healing, his forgiving, his creating, his guiding, his teaching. If we start thinking of God in this way, we will think of ourselves like this, too. We aren’t static photos in time – a toddler, a teen, an adult. We aren’t the image others may have of us. Rather, we are known by what we do. “For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in…” (Matthew 25:35). Our God is a verb, and so should we be. Not defined by what we have, or what we look like, but by what we do. “For in him we live and move and have our being.” (Acts 17:28). Open Bible – https://bit.ly/Act17v28
