“And Abraham called the name of the place, The-LORD-Will-Provide; as it is said to this day, ‘In the Mount of the LORD it shall be provided.’” (Gen. 22:14, NKJV)
“Where is the lamb for the burnt offering?” So asked Abraham’s only son, the son he loved, the son of his old age, the son of God’s promise. Abraham assured Isaac that God would provide the lamb.
But not before a redemptive drama is played out. Abraham would take the wood from the shoulders of Isaac and spread it on the altar. He then bound his son and placed him on the wood. He raised the knife to slay him but was stayed by the angel.
That redemptive drama would be resumed another day when God’s only begotten Son, whom He loved, would carry upon His shoulders the wood for His sacrifice. Only this time that Son would not be spared.
God would provide and did provide. “He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?” (Rom. 8:32) John the Baptizer, as representative of all of Old Testament prophetic revelation, points us to Jesus and says: “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!” (John 1:29)
- Does it ever seem to you that God is slow in His provision?
- How does God provide beyond all that we ask or imagine?
