Thursday, 18 June 2009

  • Jehovah Jireh--The Lord Will Provide

    A few months ago, I read Matthew 6:26--"Look at the birds of the air, they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, ad yet your Heavenly Father feeds them.  Are you not much more valuable than they?"

    At that time, I was having a hard time doing what I knew in my heart was right.  In fact, I am still having a hard time, and it comes down to his verse.  God showed it to me a few months ago, and I knew he was, in a way, saying that I could trust him to take care of my needs.  You know how when you know God is telling you to do something, but you rationalize it thinking of all the human reasons why it is not a good choice.  Especially of how you get a little frightened of what it might mean to give up?  I was scared of how I would be taken care of, and whether I would survive.  But God showed me this verse, asking--"Don't you trust me to take care of you?"

    The answer was no, I didn't.  And I still struggle with it.  In my head, I know.  I have experienced his provision before and it is awesome.  In my head, I imagine what he will do--knowing that he provides abundantly for his children.  But still, I am human and struggle to trust.  I am afraid.

    Tonight, I got another reminder of this--I got an e-mail that mentioned the passage in the Bible, when God provided the ram for Abraham in Genesis 22.  In that passage, Abraham is about to sacrifice Isaac.  He has him up on the stone and is about to do it, when God provides a ram, just in time.  God says--"So Abraham called that place The Lord will Provide (Jehovah Jireh).  And to this day it is said, "On the mountain of the Lord, it will be provided." (v. 14)

    And you know what?  I have learned this lesson before.  That's how I know all about this passage.  I studied it, when I was waiting for God to provide my job and my life-path.  And did he ever provide.  Just like with Abraham.  It was at the exact moment that I was about to make a choice, that God provided me with option C.  I ran with it and experienced God's elaborate blessings.  Cause when you truly sacrifice and give it all up, then in that moment, he blesses and provides in a unbelievable way.

    "The angel of the Lord called to Abraham from heaven a second time and said, “I swear by myself, declares the Lord, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore."  Gen.  22:15-17.

    I just noticed there how God provided more of what Abraham would have sacrificed--he was willing to sacrifice his son, so God promised him many more sons (i.e. descendants).

    All that to say--I am still learning this lesson.  I must be a slow learner to need the lesson again.  But I am learning and trying and getting closer--by the grace of God.

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