Profound and Sometimes Preposterous Ponderings of Pete

Exodus 3:13 Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?”  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.’” I am - present tense perfect.  This is a very simple but huge concept.  God is telling us several things in that simple phrase.  I will discuss a few here. 1.  He created time and exists outside of time.  He is Not constrained to it and controls it. For Him, present perfect is where He exits, always. Genesis 1:3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day. Psalm 90: 4 A thousand years in your sight  are like a day that has just gone by,  or like a watch in th

How many times have you or I been corrected about our behavior or perceived or even more often miss-perceived behavior by both well-meaning and judgmental (more so these) brothers and sisters with the statement, "I am just speaking the truth in love."  If I had a dollar for every time I heard this phrase I would by a boat.  The miss-application of this and several other scriptures is worn out.  Oh that I could teach a lesson on misused, misapplied and not even in the Bible, scriptures.  The only scripture that quotes this phrase is Ephesians 4:15  Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.  But like many misapplied scripture, this one is taken out of context.  Lets look at the whole passage. Ephesians 4: So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, 12 to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built u