I’m revisiting Exodus 3 in this one, and I want to argue something that took me a while to see clearly myself. When Moses asks God’s name at the burning bush, God doesn’t answer with a title. He answers with a verb. Ehyeh, “to be,” not a label He could carve into stone but something still in motion, revealing Himself through action, presence, and ongoing faithfulness.
I walk through why ehyeh can legitimately mean both “I Am” and “I Will Be,” and I connect that self-description straight back to God’s earlier promise to Moses, “I will be with you,” using that exact same Hebrew form.
I also lay out the grammatical link between ehyeh and the covenant name YHVH, Israel’s way of saying “He is” or “He will be,” and why God’s name was never meant to be known by pronunciation alone. It’s known through His deeds, all through the Exodus and the rest of the Old Testament.
Then I follow this thread straight into John’s Gospel, into Jesus’ own “I am” language, especially that moment in John 8 that got stones picked up. Because I don’t think Scripture is handing us information to collect. I think it’s inviting us to actually know Him.
