JEHOVAH-JIREH | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Feb 1, 1905

JEHOVAH-JIREH.

JEHOVAH is the covenant-name of our God, the promise in blank of the great I AM.

Tell My people, was the Lord's instruction to Moses, that I AM hath sent you, the Self-existent One, the One including all fulness in Himself. His name to Israel was a note in blank which faith could fill out with all that was necessary to supply their needs. Jehovah is ever the same, the Self-existent, the All-comprehending One to us.

To us also is the covenant-name a note in blank, and faith can fill it and draw the full face according to human needs. "I AM."—What, Lord? I am Light in the darkness and gloom. I AM the Deliverer from sin's bondage; I AM all that you need.

God can not place all His blood-bought promises of good to His children after His name. There is not room for it; the world could not bear the books which would express it. But God does give illustrations of what that covenant-name means by connecting with it some one of the attributes of His character.

An instance of this is given in Genesis 22, when Abraham had his faith tried to the uttermost, and he was ready to offer up to God his only son.

By a striking object-lesson the Lord taught Abraham to trust Him, and He teaches us the same to-day. Abraham must not sacrifice his son.

But there was the altar and the wood! What of these? Well, God can provide. Abraham turns, and beholds a lamb caught in a thicket by the horns. Abraham unbinds the lad and offers the lamb instead of his son. And that spot in the mount of the Lord Abraham called, "Jehovah-jireh,"—Jehovah will provide.

And so He ever will. Are your burdens greater than you can bear? God will provide the strength. Are you in darkness?—God will give the light. Are you weary? He will give you rest. Are you poor?—In Him are infinite riches of grace and glory. Do your sins oppress you? Does Satan pursue you?—The covenant-God asks you to place after His name cleansing and refuge. Yea, in all things, this "God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus."

"Jesus, my all in all Thou art, My rest in toil, my ease in pain; The healing of my broken heart, In strife my peace, in loss my gain; My smile beneath the tyrant's frown, In shame my glory and my crown."