The Lord Will Provide On His Mountain
Today’s Bible Verse
So Abraham named that place The Lord Provides (Jehovah-Jireh). Even today people say, “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.”
(Genesis 22: 14)
Are you worried about tomorrow? We worship the Lord who provides our daily bread.
Do you fear how things will be in the end? He is the God of happy endings.
Do the problems that surround terrify you? Christ Jesus calmed the storm with His word.
He is Jehovah-Jireh! He is our provider. He will take care of things.
Abraham saw God's promise becoming true in his life. It was so miraculous that His wife Sarah, at the age of ninety, gave birth to Isaac, their only son. The promise of God that Abraham will be the father of many nations became true through this son. And then, one day, God says to Abraham, “Take your only son, Isaac, the son you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Kill him there and offer him as a whole burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about” (Genesis 22: 02).
Listening to the Lord's voice, Abraham took his son, Isaac, together with two of his servants, and when they reached the place of sacrifice that God had shown Abraham, only the father and son proceeded. Looking at all the things that they both carried in preparation for the sacrifice, Isaac asks Abraham, “We have the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb we will burn as a sacrifice?” Abraham answered, “God will give us the lamb for the sacrifice, my son” (07, 08). I am able to see how much Abraham, the father's heart, would have felt when he said this answer to his concerned son. How obedient was Abraham's heart to God's voice. Don't you think his human feelings and emotions would have tempted him to break, become overwhelmed, and once again bow down before God and ask, 'Lord, is it really what you want?' But Abraham was obedient to the extent that he did not even allow his father-son relationship and its emotion to come between his obedience to God's word.
So Abraham and his son went on together and came to the place God had told him about. Abraham built an altar there. He laid the wood on it and then tied up his son Isaac and laid him on the wood on the altar. Then Abraham took his knife and was about to kill his son. But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham! Abraham!” Abraham answered, “Yes.” The angel said, “Don’t kill your son or hurt him in any way. Now I can see that you trust God and that you have not kept your son, your only son, from me.” Then Abraham looked up and saw a male sheep caught in a bush by its horns. So Abraham went and took the sheep and killed it. He offered it as a whole burnt offering to God, and his son was saved. So Abraham named that place The Lord Provides. Even today people say, “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided" (08-14).
I find two important reminders of faith in this passage today.
The Faith that The Lord Will Provide
Christian faith and the Bible remind us time and again, over and over, right from the Book of Genesis to the last chapter of The Book of Revelation, that the Lord provides for those who wait upon Him. The Lord provides for those who trust in Him. The Lord provides for those who stand strong in their faith until the end. The Lord provides for those who seek Him even from the depths of the calamities. And Abraham's preparation to sacrifice his only son, the promise of God, is one of the greatest examples that the Bible could ever show us to remind us of the altitude of this faith. We need to trust God! We need to seek Him even when things do not turn out to be the way we expected them to be. We need to carry the faith that the Lord will provide at the right time, the right way and in His way!
The Faith that Our Blessings Will Be Provided On The Mountain Of The Lord
It is also important that, as the children of God, we wait for Him to provide for us, and this providence is not going to be a normal one! The blessing that we are waiting for will not just be something that will meet our needs. It will be grand. It will be packed full of God's surprises. It will be filled with God's precious gifts. Because for those who trust the Lord until the end, for those who go any distance in faith by trusting Him, for those who follow Him even when their last hope is about to vanish, God blesses them by providing on His mountain; from His glorious presence, from the highest elevations of blessings. And anything that comes from the Lord's mighty presence, from the highest places of His providence, we know, will be the greatest that we could ever receive.
Therefore, let us remember that our Lord our God is Jehovah-Jireh. Let us learn to trust God even in the worst situations, even in the moments when our last hope is fading away. Let us learn to carry the faith that the Lord will surely provide for us. Let us also remind ourselves that the Lord will provide on His mountain. For Abraham, God did not just give him a lamb, but God gave Abraham his nations on that mountain on that day of sacrifice. God gave Abraham the promise of Israel on the mountain. He asked for a son, and God gave him generations. Today you may also be asking for something that will quench your moment's thirst, but remember that the Lord will provide for you from His glorious presence a fountain that will flow through your lands and will be sufficient for your generations to come.
May the blessings of God the Father, the love and grace of Christ Jesus the Son, and the fellowship and guidance of the Holy Spirit, be with us as we continue to seek Him.
May God bless you.
Yours in Christ,
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"The Lord Will Provide"
by Matthew Smith
