The Lord is awe-inspiring, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him in Genesis 22:9-14,
“When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. But the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven, ‘Abraham! Abraham!’ ‘Here I am,’ he replied. ‘Do not lay a hand on the boy,’ he said. ‘Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.’ Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. So Abraham called that place The Lord Will Provide. And to this day it is said, ‘On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.’”
“On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.” As Isaac lay on the altar to be sacrificed I can’t help but acknowledge that it is my place to be offered up on the altar of my sin. I am the product of a fallen race, separated from God, estranged from him. I have sinned and I deserve the consequences for it. I have no right and no claim to escape the wrath of God’s righteous indignation and judgment for who I am, what I have done and what I deserve.
But God… ! He is merciful! He is wonderfully disposed toward me in a love I can scarce understand! “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.” And provide he did! On Mount Calvary my Savior willingly sacrificed himself for me. He took my sin upon himself in an act of love that transcends my understanding! I am now free from God’s judgment! I am now free to be called a child of God! I am now free to enter into the resurrection of life everlasting: into the creation that our loving Creator originally designed us for!
“On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.” How true that is!!
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share your theme of worship with us from your Bible reading today. We’d love to hear from you!
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