The Fourth Gift Of Christmas - Experiencing "The Lord Provides"
“And Abraham called the name of that place “The Lord provides.” It is said to this day, “In the mountain of the Lord provision will be made.” Genesis 22:14 NET
In Genesis 22:1-18, we read of the story of Abraham hearing God asking him to sacrifice his son Isaac on the mountain of Moriah. But just as he was going to sacrifice Isaac, he heard God’s voice again telling him not to kill Isaac. It is a story to draw attention to the need to discern between the voice of fear and the voice of love. It is a story to help us to cultivate a relationship with God that is rooted in love and not in fear.
Jesus came to restore our relationship with God as our Heavenly Father. Lust, greed, pride and envy blinds us to our identity as God’s beloved. Jesus taught us to pray, “Give us this day our daily bread” when we pray to God as our Heavenly Father. In times of need and in the storms of life, we can simply pray, “The Lord Provides” as the prayer of our heart. This is to break down the networks of fear and anxiety in our brains networks and to rewire them into pathways for faith and peace.
We need to remove the stones of pride and envy from our hearts so that we can distinguish between the voice of fear and the voice of love. We need to learn to switch off the voice of fear and to switch on the voice of love. Then we can live as the children of God and to see God more clearly with a pure heart.
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