The Lord will Provide
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011“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.”” [Gen.22:14]
When we think of God providing and of provisions we usually thinks of things. The good Lord truly provides us with everything we need, everything that can be enjoyed [and let us be thankful]…even as we asked. But to the Lord, the provision speaks of something more precious, because to Him provision is about Him, the true Bread of Life, to whom everyone who comes will never go hungry and to whom everyone who believes will never go thirsty [John 6:31-35].
This is the lesson that Abraham learned there on the mount. In the calling where God calls us: “As you come to him, the living Stone-rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to Him—you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ- The Lord will provide.
a. The opportunity of the offering. Is it not God who called…”take now your son, your only son Isaac…” it is God who provides opportunity for the offering [Eph.5:15-16; Phil.2:12-13]. In doing also, God calls us into Himself and there’s no other more profound God has given us to know him more but this. “Oh that God will give us ears to hear, that we will be like the sheep that knows their shepherds voice, then we will hear, we will know and we will see when God provides the opportunity. And God make us willing.”
b. The Cost of the offering. The provision of God speaks of the offering. God called us into life that becomes an offering. And He Himself provided the very cost of the offering and there will be no offering that will be accepted but those that are through Jesus Christ-God’s provision.
That is why in giving us opportunities to offer [as He provides], God calls us to Himself because He calls us in the offering that He Himself made- the offering up of His Son, so that everyone who will believe will not perish but have life.
“…as it is said to this day, “In the Mount of the Lord it shall be provided.””