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Exodus 3:15 · World English Bible

Exodus 3:15 Meaning God Said Moreover to Moses

God said moreover to Moses, “You shall tell the children of Israel this, ‘Yahweh, 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 to all generations.

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What does Exodus 3:15 mean?

The name given here is a state of being, not a title in the sky. Called the God of Abraham, of Isaac, of Jacob, it is the same awareness passing through one life after another, the felt sense of "I am" that every person carries.

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The name given here is a state of being, not a title in the sky. Called the God of Abraham, of Isaac, of Jacob, it is the same awareness passing through one life after another, the felt sense of "I am" that every person carries. That awareness is what sends and what saves. It wore each of those names in turn and remains the constant beneath all of them.

This name is called a memorial to all generations because it never changes hands. The same power that formed the fathers is the power alive in the reader now, under his own conviction of being. Whatever a man joins to that inner "I am," holding it as settled, is what he becomes. The name is his own sense of existence, and it is eternal.

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Live Exodus 3:15 today

  1. Think of someone in your family who was strong in a way you admire, and recognize that the same steadiness is in you right now. Sit with that for a moment instead of treating it as theirs alone.
  2. At dinner or on a call, tell someone a story about the people who came before you. Speak as if that life is still running, because it is.
  3. When you feel too small for what today is asking, remember the power in you is not new or borrowed. Hold the steady sense of being yourself and act from there.

What would change if the strength you keep crediting to others were simply yours?

The same truth in other traditions

Hinduism · Upanishads

The self in you is the same self in your parents and in everyone before them, unchanged while bodies come and go. It does not pass down like property, it was never divided.

Tao Te Ching 25

The way was there before heaven and earth and does not age with what it makes. The forms change names, the source keeps its own.

Judaism

The sages taught that each person should hear the voice at Sinai as spoken to them today, not to ancestors long gone. The same word is being said now.

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