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One of the ways to understand the character and nature of God is to study the names used for Him in the bible. Our text mentions a compound name of God that gives insight into His character. The story of Abraham and Issac is familiar. Issac was the fulfillment of God’s promise to Abraham to provide a son from whom would come a great nation. God then tells Abraham to sacrifice his son. Our text is the end of that story where God has provided a ram as a sacrifice. This is the only location in the bible where we read God’s name as Jehovah-Jireh: God is a provider. What is a provision? The root word in Latin is provisioun which means to see before. It means to prepare before and to act in advance. It means to see ahead and to prepare for what has yet to come. Abraham was calling God the Lord, who knows exactly where we are, where we are going and can supply all we need. The provision of God is not a random shopping list of things that we think we need, but it is a specific supply of exactly what we need when we need it. We can all tell stories of God’s provision in our life. These would be stories of an on-time God who provided exactly what we needed at precisely the moment we needed, and He will do this even when we did not see the situation before it unfolded. Abraham had to travel for three days without knowing what was ahead. It was not until the moment of sacrifice that God revealed his plan and supply.