Exodus 3:6a

6 And he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.”

Moses’s father is never mentioned in the Bible, apart from this reference to his tribal identity:

“Now a man from the house of Levi went and took as his wife a Levite woman” [2:1].

Here we have Moses, the rootless man without a country, and look how the Lord addresses him:

“I am the God of your father” [v. 6]. The Lord specifically identifies Moses and makes it clear that the strange circumstances of his life are not an accident. This rootless man is given an identity by God.

We become who we need to be when we are defined by God’s word to us and not the words of the world. What matters is not what other people say about us, but what we know to be true about us from God’s word.