Present Tense God

A shepherd stands barefoot in the desert, staring at a bush that is burning and not burning up. He is eighty years old, a fugitive, a man whose big chances seem long behind him. And God speaks his name.

When Moses asks what name to give the people, God answers with something astonishing. I AM WHO I AM. Not I was. Not I will be. I AM. The name of God is written in the present tense.

Our minds rarely live there. They drift back to what we should have said, or race ahead to what might go wrong. We meet a remembered God in yesterday and an imagined God in tomorrow. But the Father introduces Himself as the One who is here, now, in the moment you are actually living.

That is wonderful news for anyone who feels behind. Moses thought his time had passed. God thought otherwise. The present is the only place we can actually meet Him, and it is the one place He has promised always to be.

So come back to this moment. The cup in your hand. The light in the room. The breath in your chest. Your Father is not waiting for you in a better season. He is I AM, and He is with you exactly where you are, today, before anything else has to change.