Then he said, “Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from me”…And Abraham named that place The Lord Will Provide, so today it is said, “It will be provided on the Lord’s mountain.” (12-14)
This story always touches me whenever I read it, but today I noticed something for the first time. I wonder if Paul was thinking about this passage when he wrote these words:
If God is for us, who is against us? He did not even spare his own Son but gave him up for us all. How will he not also with him grant us everything? (Romans 8:31-32)
Two thousand years ago on the hill called Calvary, God provided for our salvation, not sparing his own Son in order to do so.
How can I not trust that he’ll provide everything else that I need?
Father, you are Yahweh-yireh, the Lord who sees me, the Lord who provides. You proved that on Calvary. Help me to never forget that truth. Help me to never forget who you are.
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