Title: Jehovah Jireh?? (6)
Series: God Has a Name
Author: Joey Rodgers
Text: Genesis 22:1-19????
My favorite sport growing up was baseball. Sadly though, I grew up in Atlanta when the Braves were perennial cellar-dwellers. They were so bad, we'd take paper bags to the games to put over our heads for fear someone might see us. Yet despite how bad the Braves were at the time, one of my fondest memories came during a Braves/Expos game on May 17, 1977. The Braves were down 3 runs in the bottom of the 9th when Biff Pocoroba (gotta love the name Biff) came to the plate w/ the bases loaded and 2 outs. As the count ran full, the pitcher grooved a FB and he jacked it! A game-winning, walk-off, grand slam!
Have you ever found yourself in a "bottom of the 9th base-loaded, game-on-the-line moment when all the pressure is placed on you to deliver? This was the case for Abe in Genesis 22 when God asked him to lay Isaac on the altar - and when God showed up as our Jehovah Jireh - the God who provides.
To remind you - after 24 yrs of fatherless father's days, God had finally blessed Abe w/ a promised son - the son who was to be the cornerstone of God's promise to make Abe a great nation. Yet as Isaac reached his teen yrs, God pulled a fast one on Abe and asked him to do the unfathomable - offer his one/only son Isaac as a sacrifice to God. What would you have done if you'd been in Abe's sandals?
LBH - I can tell you what Abe did - he trusted God and immediately did as God required of him. Was it easy? My guess is NO - yet he did it b/c he believed God would provide.
If you're keeping score at home, this story is about (2) important Biblical truths. (1) The story of Abe/Isaac is a foreshadowing of what God the Father would do for all of humanity in offering Jesus as a sacrifice for our sins. And (2), it's about God making sure we have nothing on the throne of our lives in place of Him. It's about how God longs to bless us w/ Isaacs in our lives, but if we ...
Series: God Has a Name
Author: Joey Rodgers
Text: Genesis 22:1-19????
My favorite sport growing up was baseball. Sadly though, I grew up in Atlanta when the Braves were perennial cellar-dwellers. They were so bad, we'd take paper bags to the games to put over our heads for fear someone might see us. Yet despite how bad the Braves were at the time, one of my fondest memories came during a Braves/Expos game on May 17, 1977. The Braves were down 3 runs in the bottom of the 9th when Biff Pocoroba (gotta love the name Biff) came to the plate w/ the bases loaded and 2 outs. As the count ran full, the pitcher grooved a FB and he jacked it! A game-winning, walk-off, grand slam!
Have you ever found yourself in a "bottom of the 9th base-loaded, game-on-the-line moment when all the pressure is placed on you to deliver? This was the case for Abe in Genesis 22 when God asked him to lay Isaac on the altar - and when God showed up as our Jehovah Jireh - the God who provides.
To remind you - after 24 yrs of fatherless father's days, God had finally blessed Abe w/ a promised son - the son who was to be the cornerstone of God's promise to make Abe a great nation. Yet as Isaac reached his teen yrs, God pulled a fast one on Abe and asked him to do the unfathomable - offer his one/only son Isaac as a sacrifice to God. What would you have done if you'd been in Abe's sandals?
LBH - I can tell you what Abe did - he trusted God and immediately did as God required of him. Was it easy? My guess is NO - yet he did it b/c he believed God would provide.
If you're keeping score at home, this story is about (2) important Biblical truths. (1) The story of Abe/Isaac is a foreshadowing of what God the Father would do for all of humanity in offering Jesus as a sacrifice for our sins. And (2), it's about God making sure we have nothing on the throne of our lives in place of Him. It's about how God longs to bless us w/ Isaacs in our lives, but if we ...
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