With its release of the Iphone, Apple Inc. manufactured the first smart phone into existence. The capabilities of the Iphone were unfathomable, and for the first time, the consumer was handed a product that would allow him to not only make phone calls but actively perform a wide range of operations from the palm of his hand. With its enormous capabilities all conveniently locked inside a hand held screen, the Iphone for the first time made it possible for the individual to have the "world at his fingertips." The Iphone was created to be everything the consumer needed and desired.
Trends in modern society have been to create a God that is relative to the individual. It seems that the majority of the world is not comfortable with one ideology of God, for instance the God of the Bible, the God of the Koran, the God of the Tripitaka. God is universal and one should not limit the perspective, through one denominational lense, by which this supernatural being is viewed. With this paradigm, the modern trend is to capsulate God, giving Him distinct, desirable characteristcs and defining His true character by the way in which the individual desires to see Him. This is the process of creating the IGOD: a God similar to an Iphone who is incapsulated by a hand held screen which has the desired applications to fit the consumer's needs.
Long before the Iphone and modern trends, God presents an interesting paradigm. In Exodus chapter 3, Moses asks God what is your name so I can tell your people Israel? God responds by saying, "I AM THAT I AM: and he said, thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you." (Exo. 3:14) By answering in the present tense saying "I AM," God indicates that He is everything that humanity needs whether that need or desire be in the past, present, or future. God goes before to lead and goes behind to protect. He becomes All in All to the individual who trusts in Him. Trust in Him! This is exactly what God was asking of the children of Israel: "I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a land flowing with milk and honey." (Exo. 3:8) God told Moses the end result but did not tell him how He would eventually get them there. He asked Moses to trust in Him and that was enough. God would be everything needed in the time that it was needed. "Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you." By indicating His name as I AM THAT I AM, God made it known that there was power in His name to do the miraculous. One only need to trust in Him.
In John 5:43 while talking with a crowd of people, Jesus said, "I am come in my Fathers name...." By making this statement, Jesus indicates that his name is equal to the phrase "I AM." There is power in the name of Jesus to meet every need in the time of that need. Jesus told his disciples, "All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth." (Matt. 28:18) The only requirement is that you put all your trust in Jesus. This is where societies modern philosophy of the IGOD falls to pieces. Jesus provides a paradigm of His own which contradicts that of modern society: I am the consumer that bought you with my own life and you are the Iphone. Whatever you have need of I have the application to answer your need. Just put your life in my hands. "Be still, and know that I am God." (Psalms 46:10)
