Sep 5, 2017

Jehovah Jireh; ...My Provider

Ed's Note: Jehovah Jireh (or the Lord My Provider) is one of the compound redemptive names of Jehovah-God.  God is and becomes the answer to whatever your needs are.  

...my Righteousness, my Provider, my Everpresent Help, my Creator, my Sufficiency, my Healer, my Banner (he even goes ahead of me), my Peace, my Owner, my Master, my Judge, my Lord of All, my Shepherd...

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Jehovah Jireh (The Lord Provides)
This name of God is a compound of two names. Jehovah imparts the fundamentals about God: He is the self-existent God of righteousness and holiness, a God of revelation who makes and keeps His promises. The second name, Jireh, means the Lord will provide, with the additional meaning of “pre-vision.” In other words, God knows how events unfold before they occur.
As with other compound names of God, the second name Jireh points to a historical incident; in this case, God’s command that Abraham sacrifice his son.
“Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you” (Gen. 22:2).
This was the moment of truth in Abraham’s life, the zenith of his faith in God. After decades of childlessness, God blessed him with a son, and now, unimaginably, God told him to take that son and sacrifice him on Mount Moriah.
This was the test to end all tests. Without objection, Abraham obeyed God’s command. His life of challenges and faith culminated in glorious commitment and absolute trust in God, even though he didn’t understand His methods or His motives.
When Abraham’s knife was raised over the bound body of his precious, only son, God intervened: “Abraham, Abraham! Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me” (Gen. 22:11-12).
And then, Jehovah Jireh provided a sacrifice of His own. In a beautiful picture of the future provision of God’s only Son for our sins, He provided a ram caught in a thicket, his head ringed with a crown of thorns. ~ from Lenya Heitzig


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