God Himself Will Provide the Lamb

Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together, Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, "Father?" "Yes, my son?" Abraham replied.

"The fire and wood are here," Isaac said, "but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?” Abraham answered, "God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son." And the two of them went on together. (Genesis 22:6-8)

Have you ever awoken early in the morning and felt like you are carrying the wood for your own sacrifice on your shoulders? Can you just imagine how Abraham felt that historic morning as he got out of bed and got dressed knowing he had to but not feeling good about the fact that God’s instructions did not come with an option to back out or compromise about killing his son?

Take a moment and think about your life. What impossibility are you facing today? What in your life is weighing so heavy on your heart that you can hardly breathe because of the intense pain?

Put that in perspective to Abraham’s situation. Here he is, a godly man and one day God comes right out and says, “Kill your son!” Abraham, being human like us, probably had deep emotions inside that surrounded his heart. What had God meant; all of the hopes, the dreams, could this be right? Could God really be telling him to kill his son? At that point in his journey, Abraham had nothing to hold on to except God’s promises. God’s word!

If Abraham had looked at his circumstances even if he had just looked at God’s command, he could have been very discouraged and rightly so. The situation he was in looked entirely different than what he had been told. God said that through Isaac that all nations would be blessed and that Isaac would be his heir. Well, if he killed him, how could this be? Abraham had such faith in God at this time that he knew that even if he had killed Isaac that God, in order to keep His promises, would have raised him from the dead in order to keep His word!

What is your Mount Moriah? What are you carrying that is causing you to think that if you have to carry it to the end that it will be an impossibility for God to come through with what He has promised?

Remember, He is Jehovah Jireh – the God Who Provides!!