Jehovah Jireh

Genesis 20-23

The Lord will provide. A fascinating, yet inconceivable promise to many.

What must have gone through Abraham's mind as he trudged up the mountains of Moriah? The son he had longed for... had waited for was now walking beside him. He must have been so proud of the way that Isaac was maturing... he was strong enough to carry the lion's share of the load. Today, however, the load that he carried was the wood for his own sacrificial fire. Looking around, Isaac asks the question that Abraham must have feared the most... “We have the fire and the wood, but where is the sheep for the burnt offering?” Abraham was ready for Isaac's question, he'd been talking it through in his mind the whole trip...  “God will provide a sheep for the burnt offering, my son.”

God had provided before. He had saved Sarah's honor before Abimilech, even when Abraham had not trusted... he had provided a son by Sarah's handmaid, when Sarah could not wait... and he had filled Sarah's womb, in the midst of Abraham and Sarah's laughter and unbelief. Would he come through again? Could he really be trusted to provide the lamb? More than Abraham could imagine! When Abraham fully trusted, when his faith was fully formed, Jehovah Jireh provided the sacrificial lamb... first on the mountains of Moriah, then later on the hill of Golgotha. Thank you, Jehovah Jireh!