“And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.”
Abraham answers: God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son. And the two of them go on together. The answer is either the expression of genuine faith — God will provide — or the kindest way Abraham could find to defer the truth. Either way, the answer is prophetically true. The ram in the thicket is coming; the Lamb of God is coming. Providence and provision are the same word in Hebrew and Latin — God's governance and God's supply are inseparable. The application: the statement that God himself will provide is the foundational statement of covenant faith. It is always true. The provision may not come in the form expected, but it comes.
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