The Great I AM

God is the only Great I AM!

I am faced with a big decision.  It is not a decision that came from me.  I have felt for a few years that God does not want me teaching in a school.  I truly believe that he wants me writing full time.  A full time work from home writer and mom.  I have faith, I know God will provide.  I just don’t want to mess up with God’s timing.  The thought continues… what if I am wrong?  What if I want this so bad that I am imagining everything?  But I am not.  I was forced to slow down by getting pneumonia last fall.  I was forced to lie still and listen to God.  He has been on me to write for years upon years.  I have only recently begun to listen.  But not enough.  When I was stuck, ill and forced to be still, I heard God.  He gave me instructions for a series of books, that was September.  It is now December and the first book of the series is already in the publishing process…

I have been bombarded with hints and direct statements from all parts of my life that I am supposed to quit my job.  But what a leap of faith.  I want to wait on God’s timing.  I want to know our future is secure before taking the step.  I am praying that God will make it possible.  And I know he can.  But what if he is waiting for me to show him that trust, that extreme measure of faith.

After getting yet another clear message that I am not where God wants me to be, I sat down and began writing all the things I have heard from different areas of my life concerning my job.  I also included the doubts.  My pencil was flying, trying to record all of my thoughts before they were gone.   

HERE IS MY POINT!:  At the bottom of the page I found myself writing this: “I am our income.”  “I am our insurance.”  I stopped short – look at those words… look at the words I wrote.  That was a blow.  “I am…”    Well, it really hit home then because I know that only God is the great I AM.  I, personally, am NOT!  I am God’s servant – that is all that I am.  God is the only Great I AM.  God said, “No, I AM your income, I AM your insurance.”

Let God be the I AM of your life.

Exodus 3:14

God replied to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM. Say this to the people of Israel: I Am has sent me to you."

John 8:58
Jesus answered, “I tell you the truth, before Abraham was even born, I AM!”


Revelation 1:8
"I am the Alpha and the Omega – the beginning and the end," says the Lord God, "I am the one who is, who always was, and who is still to come - the Almighty One.”