God is our Jehovah-Jireh, The Lord Will Provide, this name of God has been increasingly important in my journey and may prove to add some comfort in any situation. Jehovah means the self-existent One. Jehovah derives from the Hebrew word havah, which means to be, to become. So this name of God speaks to God's being or essence. Jehovah, I am who I am, I will be who I will be, and I will cause all that will be. Jehovah is the the eternal I AM. All of life is contained in Him. Now Jireh literally means "to see" in the Hebrew. So how do scholars get provide out of "to see." As Kay Arthur (author of Lord, I Want to Know You) beautifully explains it: our eternal, all knowing Father in Heaven sees.. always have, always will. He sees the now and he sees what will be.
We see a beautiful example of this in Genesis 22. God has just asked Abraham to go to Moriah and sacrifice his son Isaac. While walking to where the sacrifice was to take place Isaac notices they have the fire and the wood but there is no lamb for the burnt offering, he asks his father where the lamb is. In 22:8 Abraham responds, "God will provide for Himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son," so he was literally saying, "God will see for Himself the lamb." The use of the word see denotes provision. He arranged the wood, bond his son Isaac, and was just about to sacrifice him when the angel of the Lord stopped him. Abraham looked behind him and a ram was caught in the bushes. Abraham loved his son, gave him up as worship to the Lord by obeying his calling to do so, and the Lord provided an alternative sacrifice.What do I have in my life the Lord is asking of me, what may seem like too much to do, or to give up? Why do I struggle to lean into the unchangeable provision of my Jehovah-Jireh? God is the eternal (Jehovah) provider (Jireh).. always has been, always will be.
The Lord is my Jehovah-Jireh, your Jehovah-Jireh The Lord WILL Provide. I'm holding onto nothing in this life, I offer it all up to the Lord and his unchanging, good, and perfect provision will do just that.. provide.
