Untitled article by Henry Veysey

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 20, 1883

Postal-Card Jottings.—No. 1.

By Henry Veysey

JEHOVAH-JIREH was the name of the place where God graciously saved Abraham's son, his only son Isaac, whom he loved, from the hand of death, providing a ram to die in his stead. Gen. 22 : 2, 13, 14. Abraham, looking forward, by a living faith, to the Great Sacrifice, who has since died for the sin of the world, John 1 : 29, said Jehovah-jireh, The Lord will provide. We look back to the tree on which hung the Saviour of the world (Gal. 3 : 13), and look forward to the time when the Great Shepherd, our Great High Priest, will put all our sins upon the head of the anti-typical scape-goat, Azazel, the devil, and Satan; when the last act in the awful drama of sin will be finished; when our sins will be forever cast into the depths of the sea (Lev. 16 : 8, 10, 21, 22; Micah 7 : 19), and we can shout Jehovah-jireh, The Lord will provide. Dear reader, will you not this day say: “I am only worthy of death and of everlasting destruction, from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power. 2 Thess. 1 : 9. My sins are more in number than the sand of the sea. I only deserve to fall under his wrath, and to be swallowed up in his righteous vengence, but I believe God's promise, I see my Saviour. I can say, The Lord will provide, I have a Sure Refuge in the person of the Son of God?” Can you thus rejoice? If not go to him to-day as a humble suppliant for mercy. You may well trust him, apart from any fitness in you. All the fitness is in him. Now live by his grace, as one redeemed to God, at such a price. Let every energy of your being be devoted to him. For every need the Lord will provide.

HENRY VEYSEY. Battle Creek, Mich.