[Steve Myers] Have you ever worried about what lies ahead? Well, there's a story that should help bring us a little bit of confidence that's found in the Bible.

In fact, I think you probably already know it. It's the story of Abraham. And God asked Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac. So he went up to Mount Moriah, was going to sacrifice Isaac, and God stopped him. And so he did not sacrifice Isaac and He provided the sacrifice for him. Now it's interesting in Genesis 22:14 Abraham called the name of that place YWHW Yireh, and that word is the YHWH which is often translated "Lord" and the Yireh stands for "sees". It comes from the base word in Hebrew to see.

So Abraham named this place, this Mount Moriah where the Temple Mount is today, he named it "The Lord will provide" as He provided that ram or "The Lord sees." You see he felt that God noticed what was necessary and gave that ram as a sacrifice. And I think it's important for us to realize that what God did for Abraham, He promises to do for us as well. God sees. God will provide. He sees the past. He sees the present. He sees the future. And He's able to know what our needs are, and He's able to provide them for us and it's everything that we need.

So God looks ahead and He sees what our needs are and He promises to provide. And so we're reminded of that in one of the Psalms. In Psalms 111:5 we're told very clearly this, he says, "He provides," or He sees, "He provides for us food," and now that's not only physical food. I believe that also implies all of our needs, our physical necessities as well as our emotional necessities, our spiritual needs as well because he concludes that remark in Psalms 111:5 by saying, "He remembers His covenant forever."

So we can hold God to that promise that He's not going to forget, that God will provide. He is our YWHW Yireh, the Lord who sees.

That's BT Daily. We'll see you next time.