GOD-NAMES
All other things derive
being – their ‘is-ness’ is secondary.
But God did not derive His being from any other – His ‘is-ness’ is
underived, original, eternal! He was,
and is, and is to come, the eternal ‘I Am.’ Rather than concealing His
identity, this Name reveals the deepest mystery of His being, and rocks our
minds with the discovery that we cannot begin to fathom the mind and life of
this eternal God.
Sinclair Ferguson
A Heart for God, 1987, p. 51, by permission Banner of Truth,
Carlisle, PA.