If you were going on a mission from anyone, you'd want some signal of authority. You'd want something that offered proof that an organization is vouching for you as an official emissary. That's exactly what Moses requests -- evidence of God's authority for his mission.
Moses, as usual, gets more than he bargains for.
God gives him not just a name, but a divine mystery. I read this once translated as I will be whosoever I will be. God doesn't fit neatly into our ideas of identity -- a name cannot contain God. God is bigger than our concepts. God is bigger than our minds -- we cannot wrap our minds around God. We try, all the time, but God escapes our grasp, time and time again.
And this is a good thing. We do not want a God that fits neatly into what we can expect. We do not want a God that fits into our minds, because that means that God isn't bigger than we can imagine. A God who exists outside of time and space is a God we'll never be able to fully conceptualize, but this is a God worth chasing, a God worth pursuing, and a God worth worshiping.
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