The Great "I AM" （写于2016年10月）

【马太福音14:27】耶稣连忙对他们说：“你们放心，是我，不要怕！”

這句是福音书中耶稣在风暴中的海上对门徒说的话，耳熟能詳。「是我」，是耶稣。如果看英文版本，為什麼耶穌说" It is I" 而不是" It is me"? 语法上是不对的啊！

Matthew 14:27: But Jesus immediately said to them: “Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.”

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【出埃及记3:14】　神对摩西说：“我是自有永有的。”又说：“你要对以色列人这样说：‘那自有的打发我到你们这里来。’”

Exodus 3:14: God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you.’”

上帝的名字就是" I AM".  人的語言无法完美描述。在我们的生命中，祂是我們所需要的一切,也是我們存在的基础。

几周前买了期待已久的Jonathan Cahn的新书"The book of Mystery"。裡面其實是365天的灵修文章，每篇都从圣经里的一个希伯來文单词去思考背後的真意深意，对我有很多启发。其中一篇就是关于"I AM".  读后深深感慨：God is indeed the creator and the meaning of my very existence. 

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"“Do you know the Name of God?” asked the teacher. 

“I don’t know that I do.”

 It’s made up of four Hebrew letters, the yud, the heh, the vav, and the heh: YHVH. It’s the most sacred of names, so sacred some refuse to say it.  And yet you say it all the time.”

 “The sacred Name of God?” I replied. “How could I when I never knew it?” 

“When you speak of yourself, you say the Name.” 

“I don’t understand.”

“When you feel happy, you say, ‘I am happy.’ And when you’re not, you say ‘I am sad.’ When you tell others who you are, you say, ‘I am’ followed by your name."

“YHVH means ‘I Am.’ It’s the Name of the Eternal, the Name of God. His Name is I Am. 

“Then we all say His Name.”

 “Yes.  And you have always said it. It is woven into the fabric of existence that when you speak of yourself, you must say His Name.”

 “Why is that?”

“It’s because your existence comes from His existence. He is the I Am of all existence . . . the I Am of all I ams.  Your I am only exists because of His I Am. And as you exist from Him, so it is only from Him that you can find the reason and purpose of your existence. Therefore, when you say your name, you must always speak His Name. And you must always speak His Name first.” “Because . . . ” “Because His existence is first and your existence flows forth from His."