Genesis 22:14 And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen.

Jehovahjireh; the Lord will provide.

Here once again, if we only look at the words and ignore the circumstance, we miss that connection between who God is and what God does. Does God just provide everything? No, of course not, He does not provide for our wants and desires because most of those are not good for us. So let us look at what God provides in this declaration by Abraham who named this interaction with God.

It shall be seen in the mount. What mount? Mount Moriah which is in this day and time the Temple Mount. What was done there? God asked for a human sacrifice and Abraham took Isaac his beloved son.

Then God stayed Abraham’s hand and provided an acceptable substitute. The point of the provision is God’s sacrificial surrogate. The ram on the mount, the perfect spotless heifer on Temple Mount, Jesus Christ on the cross.

What would be the point in God’s provisions to a lost and dying world without the propitiation offered unto us through Jesus Christ? None, it would be a terrible waste. The issue of provision is meaningless without acceptance of the sacrifice that God offered to us through His Son Jesus Christ.

We have this life because of Christ. Provisions without life is meaningless. We as weak humans often look around at the bounty we have and praise God for them without considering that they are meaningless without Him.

What kind of man buys a thirty room mansion who is alone in the world? He has no one to share it with.

John 14:1-3 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

Jeremiah 23:6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, The Lord Our Righteousness.

Jehovah Tsidkenu; the Lord our righteousness.

Perhaps the most confusing of all interactions with our God is righteousness. This is because of the definition as it applies to Jesus Christ, being right, not only being right but being right always. Do I feel right all the time? No, of course not, we all make mistakes. I constantly have to come before the cross to confess my condition and lay my sins down. Not so with Christ.

Genesis 15:6 And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

That is a declarative state, an accounting, and what other accounting term is declared to us? Justification.

Romans 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

Romans 3:25-27 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

To declare His righteousness, this is a declarative state. God said so therefore it is, to God. Not so much to us if we do not have a proper understanding of God, His personality and His character.

2 Corinthians 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Righteousness for us is both declarative and positional because we are in Christ and any righteousness in us is Him.