January 8, 2009

• Jehovah-Jireh in 2009

  Abraham named that place The LORD Will Provide. It is still said today, "On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided."  Genesis 22:14

   

  JEHOVAH-JIREH MEANS "THE LORD WILL SEE." Jehovah-Jireh tells us that the Lord will see our great need. God constantly sees the needs of his children and provides for them.

   

  JEHOVAH-JIREH MEANS "THE LORD WILL PROVIDE." If God sees our need, his provision is sure. This is what Abraham tells us by the name, Jehovah-Jireh, the Lord will provide.

   

  JEHOVAH-JIREH MEANS "THE LORD WILL BE SEEN."  He will be seen in the mount of sacrifice.  He will be seen in the gospel of Christ, our crucified Savior.  He will be seen in the mount of trial.  

   

  The Lord will see and the Lord will provide.  Abraham's trial taught him more of God than he knew before or could have known in any other way.  It gave him a new name for God.  He named the mountain of his provision so that all future generations would know.  So that we would obey God and persevere.

   

  As I look back at 2008 and forward to 2009, I am struck by the retelling of this story,

   

  The founder of the China Inland Mission (now Overseas Missionary Fellowship), J. Hudson Taylor, used to hang in his home a plaque with two Hebrew words on it:  "Ebenezer" and "Jehovah-Jireh".  Ebenezer means, "Hither to hath the Lord helped us" (1 Sam. 7:12).  Jehovah-Jireh means "The Lord will see to it."  And so whether he looked back or ahead, Hudson Taylor knew the Lord was at work, and he had nothing to fear. 

  And so, 2008 is my Ebenezer and 2009 is my Jehovah-Jireh.  I have nothing to fear.

   

   

   

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