Jehovah-Jireh

After Abraham obeyed the Lord, taking his son Isaac up Mount Moriah to sacrifice him, he saw a ram caught in a thicket. This was God’s provision for the sacrifice. Abraham, who knew that the Lord was going to provide such a sacrifice when he headed up the mountain, called that place Jehovah-Jireh, saying, “In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen” (Genesis 22:14). That statement from faithful Abraham has proven true time and time again. 

Eden was a mountain, and there the Lord provided life to our father, Adam. Even after our rebellion, our Father provided a sacrifice on that mountain, clothing our first parents with garments of skin. He did the same at Mount Sinai. There the Lord’s faithfulness was seen as sacrificial blood was sprinkled upon the people and the book of the covenant. In David’s day, the LORD’s provision was seen on Mount Jerusalem as God swore an oath to give David a son who would rule, and that son Solomon came forth on that mountain. And it was on that same mountain that our Lord gave His life and instituted this Supper in which He says, “This is my body broken for you.”

This table reduces all of our sin to a singular point. That point is our doubt that on the Mount of the Lord His provision shall be seen. Our anxieties, complaining, covetousness, sour attitude, biting and devouring, you name it; all of it boils down to our disbelief in what is richly displayed before us now. We must learn to see every sin for what it is: an attempt to strip the LORD of His rightful name—Jehovah-Jireh. Likewise, we must look to whatever difficult terrain faces us in the coming year and say with Abraham, “In the Mount of the LORD it shall be seen.” And have come to that heavenly mount Zion. So come in faith and welcome to Jesus Christ.

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