Ten Commandments: A God who stands alone

Who is this God?

Back when Moses asked Pharaoh to let the people go to worship God in the desert, Pharaoh asked, “Who is this Yahweh? Why should I listen to him?”

Though thousands of years have passed since Pharaoh first posed that question, people still ask the very same question today.

“Who is this God? Why should I listen to him?”

God’s answer to them is the same one he gave to Moses at the burning bush, when he said, “I am that I am. Tell the Israelites ‘I AM’ has sent me to you.”

Even the name “Yahweh” is essentially a derivation of the Hebrew word “to be.”

As I’ve mentioned before, God was basically saying, “I’m the eternal one. I always have been, and always will be.”

Another way to put it is, “I am the only one,” because God is the only one who can make the claim that he has always been and will always be.

So the answer to the question, “Who is this God?” is essentially, “He is the only one. There is no other because he has existed from all eternity, and there is no other that can make that claim.”

And so when God gave the Ten Commandments to Moses, the very first one was, “You shall have no other gods before me.”

Another way to translate that is, “You shall have no other gods besides me.”

The reason being that God is the only one that exists, and there is no other. Any other “gods” are not gods at all.

So don’t seek after them as if they can provide for you what God can provide.

Namely, don’t seek meaning in your life from them because only God can provide that.

He is the source of everything in life. He is the one who created you, and he is the one who provides meaning to your life.

So often as people seek the meaning of life, they look everywhere but at God.

Many look to money, power, or pleasure.

Some look to family for meaning in their lives.

Others look to their career.

But only God can provide meaning in your life because he is the very source of life.

What are you seeking in life? What gods are you pursuing, hoping they will give meaning to your life?

Money?

Pleasure?

A career?

A family?

They’re all good things, but they won’t provide the meaning to life that you’re seeking.

So stop pursuing them as if they can. Don’t set them up as gods in your life.

Instead, seek God.

He stands alone as God, because he’s the only one who has existed from all eternity.

And he is the only one who can bring true meaning to your life.