Regarding "I AM": There Is No "AM"
If you are looking for someone who teaches that God's name is "I AM," you have got the wrong channel here. That ain't me, babe. There is no "am." The Hebrew word for 'name' means nature, and God is saying "I become." That is Abel, his transitoriness. God is never static. He is telling you to become.
He does not say, "I AM THAT," and become that and STAY it. He becomes and blows right through it. He has unlimited potential. So do you, because you are him blowing right through your unlimited potential every second. Dream big, friend.
Never want anything, for you shall never be satisfied with any thing. That house, that amount, that car, that job, that right--in the moment you have it, it is not enough. There is the next moment, and what of the moment that was? Well, you want something new now, so why did you want it?
Things are trash. A million dollars, a billion dollars--bam!--you are gone and what were they? Trash, waste, vanity. Abel. The moment of thing is transitory.
So, what should we want? I think pride. Not selfish pride, but the pride of loving someone and feeling, "I am a part of that world." Pride you give. The house, the car, the job, the amount--any amount, it is your joy to give. It was gone the moment you had it, anyway. We need to be on a run. God's action--power, intelligence, love--is ever flowing.
People want to be recognized as significant. This is their pride: "I ought to be recognized, valued, in control." When that is one's desire, that is Satanism. You are significant, for you are God the Almighty. That is enough. He is not "another"--there is no "he"! It is "I become": you are a spinning pot on a wheel, yourself to shape.
A friend's son wants to be a neurosurgeon. He just graduated high school. Valedictorian. That is the way you do it. Another young lady wants to be a wife, not of any particular man as yet, but wife is open-ended; it is constant. It is constant becoming. She can feel proud of her husband without a particular him being involved--yet.
The great Frank C. Laubach said we are channels of spiritual power. (After I first heard a quote from Laubach's book Channels of Spiritual Power, it took me seven years of haunting used book stores to find a copy. God bless the used-book man who sent it to me from a distant city decades before Amazon.com was even dreamt of.) Do not want a thing. Want to be a channel. God can use a channel: he is constantly reaching to give. That is Jethro, and that is his thing.
He does not say, "I AM THAT," and become that and STAY it. He becomes and blows right through it. He has unlimited potential. So do you, because you are him blowing right through your unlimited potential every second. Dream big, friend.
Never want anything, for you shall never be satisfied with any thing. That house, that amount, that car, that job, that right--in the moment you have it, it is not enough. There is the next moment, and what of the moment that was? Well, you want something new now, so why did you want it?
Things are trash. A million dollars, a billion dollars--bam!--you are gone and what were they? Trash, waste, vanity. Abel. The moment of thing is transitory.
So, what should we want? I think pride. Not selfish pride, but the pride of loving someone and feeling, "I am a part of that world." Pride you give. The house, the car, the job, the amount--any amount, it is your joy to give. It was gone the moment you had it, anyway. We need to be on a run. God's action--power, intelligence, love--is ever flowing.
People want to be recognized as significant. This is their pride: "I ought to be recognized, valued, in control." When that is one's desire, that is Satanism. You are significant, for you are God the Almighty. That is enough. He is not "another"--there is no "he"! It is "I become": you are a spinning pot on a wheel, yourself to shape.
A friend's son wants to be a neurosurgeon. He just graduated high school. Valedictorian. That is the way you do it. Another young lady wants to be a wife, not of any particular man as yet, but wife is open-ended; it is constant. It is constant becoming. She can feel proud of her husband without a particular him being involved--yet.
The great Frank C. Laubach said we are channels of spiritual power. (After I first heard a quote from Laubach's book Channels of Spiritual Power, it took me seven years of haunting used book stores to find a copy. God bless the used-book man who sent it to me from a distant city decades before Amazon.com was even dreamt of.) Do not want a thing. Want to be a channel. God can use a channel: he is constantly reaching to give. That is Jethro, and that is his thing.
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