Jehovah-Jireh

It has become something of a tradition to revisit this devotion I found several years ago in a flea market book, published at the turn of the last century.

Each year I read it with a fresh perspective and a deeper understanding. 

 

Jehovah-Jireh is a name of God first announced to Abraham after he had gone

out from his country and his family,  "not knowing where he was going".

 "Write deep in your heart this New Year's day

this word of sublime confidence, Jehovah-Jireh.

It tells you that you can trust God always;

that no promise of His ever fails;

that He doeth all things well;

 

that out of all seeming loss and destruction

of human hopes He brings blessing.

You have not passed this way heretofore.

There will be sorrows and joys, failures and successes,

this year, just as there were last year.

You cannot forecast individual experiences.

You cannot see a step before your feet.

Yet Jehovah-Jireh calls you to enter the new year

with calm trust.

 

It bids you put away all anxieties and forebodings ---

The Lord Will Provide."

May it help to bring comfort and hope, and the deep knowledge

 that all is well ~  if we will trust in Him.

Counting My Blessings

xo Susy

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