Can you imagine being asked to sacrifice your son? What if the Lord asked you to do this? I would think the Lord is crazy, but would I follow His command? Well we all know the story of how Abraham was asked to sacrifice Isaac. Abraham, although he struggled with this idea, followed the Lord's call and right before Abraham struck his son, an Angel of the Lord called out and stopped Abraham. And after he is stopped, Abraham looks up and there is a ram caught in a bush. Not a random happening, but something that God provided due to the faithfulness of Abraham. So Abraham offers the ram as a sacrifice. "So Abraham called the name of that place, "Jehovah Jireh (The Lord will provide)."" Genesis 22:14 (This is the only time this name appears in the Bible)This may be the only time in the Bible that this name appears, but we see the presence of Jehovah Jireh all throughout the Bible. Not only in the Bible, but everyday in our lives we see the work of Jehovah Jireh. All to often we fail to recognize His provisions due to an expectation that we have placed in our lives. We feel that we are owed the things we have and the blessings we have received, and fail to see them as what they are - BLESSINGS! God is so good to us! He provides for our every need and presents us with so much more than what we need. He does provide and will pour blessings out in our lives, if only we trust.
It's so hard to trust though! Sometimes the Lord's request make no sense at all and He ask too much of us. So we then begin to think that maybe it's not the Lord or that we can get away with only doing part of what the Lord requires. If this is the attitude then God can not fully provide everything He wants to provide to us. We begin to hold back Jehovah Jireh because of our decision. What, you don't think that God could ask something so crazy? What's crazier than being asked to sacrifice your own son? Nothing! We will not be asked to do something this difficult because the grace of God and the sacrifice of His son covered our sins so that we don't have to make living sacrifices to the Lord. But we are still required to be a living sacrifice and make sacrifices in our lives. And sometimes these sacrifices will sound crazy and ask a lot of us, but don't we just burst at the seems thinking about what Jehovah Jireh will provide when we follow Him?
""Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness" - and he was called a friend of God." James 2:23 Is this not what we want? Don't we desire to be credited with righteousness, where we are an extension of the Trinity? The incredible thing about the Holy Spirit is that when it dwells within us, we are then drawn into the Trinity. Absolutely incredible! And once we are drawn into the Trinity and willing to do whatever God ask, no matter how crazy, then we can fully see the work of Jehovah Jireh!
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