‘I Am He’

‘I Am He’

Even to your old age, I am He, And even to gray hairs I will carry you! I have made, and I will bear; Even I will carry, and will deliver you.

Isaiah 46:4

As we continue our consideration of Christ’s promise to preserve His people, we come today to consider another of the foundational bases of this promise. Within the context of our text, Christ says, ‘Even to your old age, I am He.’ This reference points us in two directions. It points backward to Exodus 3, where Christ tells Moses, ‘tell them that I Am has sent you,’ which is Christ’s proclamation of His Self-Existent, Immutable Character. It also points us forward to Christ’s statement to His enemies in John, when He says, ‘Before Abraham was, I Am.’ This brings us to consider the verse in Hebrews which states ‘Jesus Christ, the same, yesterday, today, and forever.’ If we ‘connect the dots,’ we arrive at the conclusion that Christ promises to preserve His people on the basis that He is the Immutable, Self-Existent God. This is, for us, a blessed assurance. Our preservation does not rest upon our ability to hold on to Christ. It is Christ Who not merely holds us, but in Whom God has placed us. We are in Christ, just as certainly as Noah and his family were in the ark, which is a picture of Christ. We may rest securely in the knowledge that Christ will be as good as His Word, because of Who and What He is. He is the I Am. As such, He will not fail to keep His Word and preserve His people, every one of them.

Our All-Powerful and All-Wise God,
we praise You that You change not.
We rejoice that You uphold us based upon Your Holy Character.

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning