I AM GOD...

Have you ever heard that God refers to himself as "I AM"? 

Ex. 3:14 says, "God said to Moses, “I am who I am.” And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘I am has sent me to you.’”

God wants us to know that He is God. To take comfort in knowing that He is the beginning and the end of everything. To trust He is here with you, no matter what the circumstance. To believe that He loves us all so much that He has done everything for us.

When people do not take comfort in, trust or believe in God they question why God would let bad things happen to them or others if He really is God.  It is these types of  questions that create the position in our hearts to not receive what God has for us in the first place.  

God shows us that good things happen to the righteous and the unrighteous, just like trials come to them both as well.  The fallen world of sin we all live in is the reason why "bad" things happen to us.  NOT BECAUSE GOD WANTS IT, but because He allows it.  God allows it because God has allowed each of us the choice to follow good or evil, and without that choice we would not have the free will to choose that He has given to each of us.

So God wants us to know that He is God, to understand that He knows all and we don't have to.  To have faith that if we put our trust in God and His son Jesus that He sent for us, He will take care of us no matter what. That if we choose to follow Jesus and His ways that we will become children of God and receive all that a kings heirs would inherit.

But it's not a kingship that is forced on us because we are next in line to inherit his kingdom.  But instead it is a kingship that God has chosen for each of us to receive if we so choose, because we ask Him to be Lord of our life.  There are no strings attacked, only the love acceptance and peace that comes from knowing the one that calls Himself "I AM".