Exodus 3 is the place where someone first asks God for his name. What do we learn about from this encounter? First, we learn that God is knowable—he is not an impersonal force, but a God with a name. Second, we find he is all sufficient. Everything in existence depends on God, but he depends on nothing; we can offer him nothing, he gives us everything. Finally, we find a radical love. When the all sufficient God desires to know you, it's can't be because you offer him something. It must be pure love, which we see in its fullness in Jesus Christ.

Application Questions: 

1. How have you experienced the difference between knowing about God and knowing God? 

2. How does God's sufficiency feel humbling you? How does God's sufficiency feel freeing to you? 

3. How does God's sufficiency make his love more striking—especially when seen in the death of Christ?