What does jehovah jireh

Abraham does as God says. He puts wood for the fire on a donkey and sets off with Isaac for the mountain God will show him. Isaac, apparently, is unaware that he is to be the offering. On the way, he asks his father,. And Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. At that point, God calls out for him to stop. Abraham has passed the test. So what does your name mean? Is it an accurate description of your life? Or were you named after someone?

Maybe a family member or significant person? So the question is: What must God see so that He might provide for you when you are caught in a trial of life?

He needs to see the same things that He saw in Abraham which are found in these words from the passage: rose, saddled, took, split, arose, and went. Abraham did not delay his obedience. Delayed obedience is disobedience. God the provider, Jehovah Jireh, gave life. He saved the promised son from being a sacrifice. He preserved His promise to make Isaac a great nation.

More often, though, we are not so trite. We do think of God providing for us — jobs, family, friends, care, church, abilities, answered prayers. In Matthew 6 Jesus tells his disciples. Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they. Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

He cares for the smallest and even the inanimate in his creation. He clothes and feeds them. His eye is on them as treasured created things. So why should we worry about His provision?