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Through the Bible - Job 5-6,1 Corinthians 3

 

Good morning
 For today's verse we'll return to Genesis, this time to chapter 22.  Abraham has been following God.  God had blessed him with his promised son Isaac.  Now Abraham faces the most challenging test of obedience in his long life.  God asks him to offer up his son as a sacrifice.  Abraham follows through and at the last instance God stops him, and provides a sacrificial ram.

 

Gen 22:13 Then Abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and there behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son.

14 And Abraham called the name of the place, The-LORD-Will-Provide; as it is said to this day, "In the Mount of the LORD it shall be provided."   NKJV

The name in Hebrew is Jehovah Jireh, the Lord Will Provide, J. M. Boice writes that "to begin with, the Hebrew word transliterated jireh is actually a form of the common verb ra'ah (to see)."   It is " literally "Jehovah will see to it" as indeed He had.  God had seen to Abraham's problem.  But since the tense of the name is future rather than past ("will see" rather than "saw"), Abraham was not only thinking of his own past experience; he was also reflecting on the fact that it is God's abiding  character that prompts him to see our problems and that at the appointed time he would undoubtedly provide for the great problem of sin.  God would provide a Savior."

 

In your time of need do you desire to know that God will provide, that He will see to it for you?  He already has in the past and He will see to it again in the future when Jesus returns to call His children home.  He will see to it.

 

No matter what we face in this world in this life may we have the confidence that He will see to it, He will see us through.

 

Blessings,
Mike
mikevw@bellsouth.net
mikesvotd.blogspot.com

Gen 22:9-18

9 When they arrived at the place where God had told Abraham to go, he built an altar and placed the wood on it. Then he tied Isaac up and laid him on the altar over the wood.

10 And Abraham took the knife and lifted it up to kill his son as a sacrifice to the LORD.

11 At that moment the angel of the LORD shouted to him from heaven, "Abraham! Abraham!" "Yes," he answered. "I'm listening."

12 "Lay down the knife," the angel said. "Do not hurt the boy in any way, for now I know that you truly fear God. You have not withheld even your beloved son from me."

13 Then Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught by its horns in a bush. So he took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering on the altar in place of his son.

14 Abraham named the place "The LORD Will Provide." This name has now become a proverb: "On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided."

15 Then the angel of the LORD called again to Abraham from heaven,

16 "This is what the LORD says: Because you have obeyed me and have not withheld even your beloved son, I swear by my own self that

17 I will bless you richly. I will multiply your descendants into countless millions, like the stars of the sky and the sand on the seashore. They will conquer their enemies,

18 and through your descendants, all the nations of the earth will be blessed — all because you have obeyed me."
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