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Devotional Observation – January 7, 2017

John 17:6 says, “I have manifested your name to the men whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.” Continuing to pray in Gethsemane, Jesus said he had revealed his Father’s name to his disciples. Representing the enslaved Jews in Egypt 3,500 years earlier, Moses asked God for his name (Exodus 3:13). “I am who I am” was God’s reply. The repetition of “I am” means the self-existing one, the eternally present one, thus the sovereign God. God told Jeremiah that Israel would know “my name is the LORD” (16:21). Many times in John’s gospel Jesus said he is the “I am,” all of them statements of deity, proving that God was seen and touched (1 John 1:1). Today let’s be like the Son and reveal God’s name and like the disciples who “kept [his] word.”

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