Exodus 6:3 · World English Bible
Exodus 6:3 Meaning I Appeared to Abraham
I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name Yahweh I was not known to them.
What does Exodus 6:3 mean?
The older names for God spoke of a power outside a person, mighty and far off, ruling from above. The name Jehovah carries a different revelation.
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The older names for God spoke of a power outside a person, mighty and far off, ruling from above. The name Jehovah carries a different revelation. It means I AM, the plain sense a person has of his own being, the words he says silently before naming anything he is. The forefathers felt the power but had not yet found it in themselves.
To be known by this name is to discover that God is the awareness looking out through one's own eyes. Whatever a man attaches to I am, he becomes. The almighty was never a stranger in the sky but the self a person feels himself to be, and every condition of his life follows the word he quietly joins to it.
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Live Exodus 6:3 today
- Instead of asking for help as if it comes from far away, put your hand on your chest and feel the one who is aware in there. Speak to it as near, not above.
- When someone asks how you are, give an honest answer from inside yourself rather than the automatic fine. Let them meet the actual person.
- In a tense moment at work, stop looking outside for permission or rescue. Decide who you are going to be in the next ten minutes, and be that.
How long have you been treating as distant the thing that has been looking out of your eyes?
The same truth in other traditions
Hinduism · Upanishads
People worship the far-off power for a long time before learning that it is the awareness looking out of their own eyes. The discovery changes nothing out there and everything in here.
Zen
A student asked where the Buddha was and the teacher said, you are riding your ox while looking for it. The seeking kept the finding away.
Sufism · Rumi
The lover searched the world and found that the beloved was the one searching. What felt distant was wearing his own face.
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