God also said to Moses, “I am the LORD. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by my name the LORD I did not make myself known to them. - Ex. 6:2-3 NIV
What does this mean? All of a sudden God is telling Moses that he is the Lord. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph knew of the Almighty God. They followed him, they heard from him, but they didn't know him in the way that God wanted his people to know him. To know that not only was he the God of the universe, but he was their master as well. Master, the one that owns them, the one that they belong to.
There is a big difference between knowing about God and being completely owned by him. We can wander from place to place, hoping for a glimpse of God. We can try to get glimpses of him in others, in our devotions, in our worship. But, until we cry out, as Thomas did when he placed his hands in Jesus' wounds, 'My Lord and my God". We will not see him as he truly is. Not just the creator of the universe, not just a worker of miracles, not just one to follow, but the one to whom we belong. The one that has bought us with a price, the one that gave us a new birth, the one that owns us completely.
‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians. I will free you from being slaves to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment. I will take you as my own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians. Exodus 6: 6-7 NIV
Just as God promised the Israelites, he has taken us out of slavery, he has freed us, we have been redeemed and we have become his own.
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