The up escalator
Genesis 22:14 And Abraham called the name of the place, The-Lord-Will-Provide; as it is said to this day, “In the Mount of The Lord it shall be provided.”
If I were to give my testimony, there is a clear financial side of it. I lived much of my life grabbing all the wants I could get my hands on. I was running what I then thought was a successful business knocking on the door of becoming a million dollar company. Over the past couple years I have seen that million dollar company go time after time to less than $1000 in multiple bank accounts; being told by everyone to file bankruptcy; selling almost all the assets; working for free to keep the doors open; now working by myself in the field; I could go on and on. I have also seen money appear time after time, right on time, to make payroll or pay an overdue bill. It happened again yesterday in a very humbling way. I continue to live on the daily manna God provides me just as He did the Israelites when they wandered in the desert for 40 years.
Abraham had an only son through his wife Sarah; a cherished son that God had blessed him with very late in his life. God came to Abraham and told him to sacrifice the boy. Genesis 22:2 Then He said, “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.” Abraham was obedient to the highest imaginable call of God; he rose the next morning and prepared to do what God had told him to do. When they arrived at the mountain his son asked where the offering was. Abraham replied “My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering.”(vs 8). Abraham was just about to sacrifice his son when an angel stopped him and showed him a goat caught by its horns in a thicket on the mountain top; just as he had told Issac that the Lord will provide. Abraham is called in the Bible the Patriarch of Great Faith.
When we are obedient to what we feel God pressing on our hearts to do, most likely it is a two-fold blessing in some way. We may be blessing someone in that act of obedience, the testing of our faith, in what God is pressing upon us. We also are blessed by the act in remaining in God’s Will for our lives. I believe each act of obedience draws us that much closer to God, each step of a stairway to heaven. I believe that is shown in Paul’s writing in Romans 6:16 Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness? Are you saying yes to the thing He is asking of you? The stairway is an up escalator; you are either moving up, or sliding down.
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