The Lord Will Provide
These four words are easy to say and affirm EXCEPT when the situation is desperate and scary. I can remember a time when I was praying for healing for my son as he fought cancer. I was scared as I watched him get so beaten down by the chemotherapy. I remember having a hard conversation with the Lord about my son. I wanted to trade places with him. I wanted healing for him. I wanted to take away the struggle. I was afraid that he wasn’t going to survive the treatment which was actually helping him fight the deadly disease.
I can hardly imagine what was going through Abraham’s mind when the Lord told him to go to the mountain to offer his son Isaac as a sacrifice. The preparations were made as if Isaac would be killed. This is the son that was promised by God to Abraham when he was 90. He came when he was 100 years old. This is the son that God had promised would deliver many descendants to Abraham and Sarah. Even his son asked about the sacrifice. He could see the wood, and the knife. Abraham told him the Lord would provide the sacrifice. This story ends well, but it was a huge “ask” on God’s part. Check this out….
12 “Don’t lay a hand on the boy!” the angel said. “Do not hurt him in any way, for now I know that you truly fear God. You have not withheld from me even your son, your only son.”
13 Then Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught by its horns in a thicket. So he took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering in place of his son. 14 Abraham named the place Yahweh-Yireh (which means “the Lord will provide”). To this day, people still use that name as a proverb: “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.”(Genesis 22:12-14 NLT)
This story affirms to me that the Lord will always provide. He doesn’t always provide the way I think. I am still learning to trust Him for His provision. His provision is not always in material things – it can be provision of wisdom and discernment. I am trying to be consistently thankful for the Lord’s current provision in my life. He provides things that I’m not aware of that I need. He also provides things before I ask. I am humbled and grateful for the Lord’s provision in my life. I am trusting and surrendering my will to His will and His call upon my life.
Pressing On!
Dwayne