the great I AM

It is amazing what a poor view of God we can have even after we have been saved and delivered. The reason behind this is that we understand God only based on our experience with Him. We understand Him based on what others teach us about Him and we do not see how important the Scriptures is to reveal to us the nature of God. Starting from the Old Testament, we have to see how God progressively reveals Himself as God Almighty, God Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel and so on. We usually comprehend Him only as our Helper or the One who forgives and forgets. We see Him as long suffering because we quickly find out that we can sin and get away with it. We do not realize that instead of punishing, there is a more of a withdrawal of His Spirit from among us because God is dealing with us in a different way than He dealt with Israel. It is only through closely looking at the Scriptures can we fully comprehend the wholesomeness of our great God.