Genesis 22:14 And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen.

Jehovahjireh; the Lord will provide.

Here once again, if we only look at the words and ignore the circumstance, we miss that connection between who God is and what God does. Does God just provide everything? No, of course not, He does not provide for our wants and desires because most of those are not good for us. So let us look at what God provides in this declaration by Abraham who named this interaction with God.

It shall be seen in the mount. What mount? Mount Moriah which is in this day and time the Temple Mount. What was done there? God asked for a human sacrifice and Abraham took Isaac his beloved son.

Then God stayed Abraham’s hand and provided an acceptable substitute. The point of the provision is God’s sacrificial surrogate. The ram on the mount, the perfect spotless heifer on Temple Mount, Jesus Christ on the cross.

What would be the point in God’s provisions to a lost and dying world without the propitiation offered unto us through Jesus Christ? None, it would be a terrible waste. The issue of provision is meaningless without acceptance of the sacrifice that God offered to us through His Son Jesus Christ.

We have this life because of Christ. Provisions without life is meaningless. We as weak humans often look around at the bounty we have and praise God for them without considering that they are meaningless without Him.

What kind of man buys a thirty room mansion who is alone in the world? He has no one to share it with.

John 14:1-3 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.