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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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