The Lord Will Provide | Christ Pulse

Heavenly Father,

Thank You for this new day, for the grace that has awakened me this morning and grants me the opportunity to walk with You once more.

I come before You with a heart full of questions, yet also with a desire for surrender. I remember Your servant Abraham. How difficult Your word must have been for him, when You told him to sacrifice that which was most precious to him.

“Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will show you.” (Genesis 22:2)

Father, in my own life there are things that I love. Dreams, relationships, plans. Things that have become my ‘Isaacs,’ something I cling to desperately because I am afraid of being left empty without them. And I feel You gently inviting me to lay them on Your altar, to surrender them to You.

This is not just a story from the past, but an invitation for me, today. You are calling me not to give you mere pieces of my life, but all that I am.

“I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.” (Romans 12:1)

I confess, Father, that this is difficult. My human reason resists. My heart clings to what it knows and loves. I am afraid of the unknown. I am afraid of loss.

But You show me the way through Your Son, Jesus. He, too, in the Garden of Gethsemane, felt the weight of the sacrifice and the fear of what was to come, yet He surrendered Himself completely to Your will.

“’Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.’” (Luke 22:42)

Help me to understand that You do not desire my suffering, but my trust. You do not want my sacrifices for their own sake, but You desire my obedient heart. You desire a relationship with me that is founded on perfect trust.

“And Samuel said, ‘Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.'” (1 Samuel 15:22)

When I surrender my life to You in faith, I believe that You see my heart. That You see my willingness, in spite of my fear. I know that Your goal is not to take something from me, but to test my faith and deepen my trust.

“’Do not lay your hand on the boy,’ he said, ‘or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.’” (Genesis 22:12)

Your faithfulness is eternal. When I release something from my hands, it does not vanish. It falls into Your hands, which are the hands of the Creator and the Redeemer. You are the one who provides all that I need, often in ways I cannot even imagine.

“So Abraham called the name of that place, ‘The LORD will provide’; as it is said to this day, ‘On the mount of the LORD it shall be provided.'” (Genesis 22:14)

Therefore, today, this morning, I lay my plans, my fears, and my dreams upon the altar. I choose Your will instead of my own. I trust that You will provide all that is necessary. May this day be a living sacrifice for Your glory.