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

Anxiety is the opposite of contentment. When we believe that God is God, that He is good, and that He takes good care of us and our needs, we are content and at peace. We see God as our provider. The Bible calls Him Jehovah Jireh, which means “The Lord will provide.” But if we take God off His throne in our lives, we become anxious. We see ourselves as our own providers. Anxiety is a perfect indicator that something is out of balance in our lives.

The Bible tells us to be anxious for nothing. It instructs us to pray and commit all our requests to God. Then we will have God’s peace. God’s peace surpasses our earthly understanding. We do not need to know what will happen or how things will work out to have God’s peace. We must trust Him to be the Provider for all of our desires and needs. This means that we submit what we think we need to His Sovereignty. The Bible tells us that God is our Father who will provide all our needs according to His glorious riches. 

Jehovah-jireh.—That is, Jehovah will provide. In Genesis 22:8, Abraham had said “Elohim-jireh,” God will provide. He now uses Jehovah as the equivalent of Elohim. It is added that hence arose a proverb “In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen,” or rather, In the mount of Jehovah it shall be provided. —The verb literally means to see, or, to see to a thing, and the sense of the proverb plainly is that in man’s necessity God will Himself see to it and provide due help and deliverance.

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God is able to provide everything we need. He is able to satisfy our desires with good things. However, He asks us to trust Him and to submit our desires to Him. We cannot allow our desires to possess us. We must always seek God first in our hearts and make sure that nothing we desire controls us or takes away our peace. When we do not have peace, we must leave the object of our desire in God’s hands. We have to let it go. If it the Lord’s will for us to have it, we will have it in His time. 

Let us pursue God first in everything we do, including our finances. Let us seek godly counsel to assure the wisdom of our financial decisions. We must determine that what we want will not get us into debt. We must be content with what the Lord provides. Finally, we must seek God’s peace in all our pursuits, including material ones. When we do these things, God will bless us. He will cause our finances to prosper as much as our soul prospers in Him. 

The way of wisdom is to put our focus on God and trust him one step at a time, one day at a time. This is how we ascend the mountain to know God, even when he has called us to do the seemingly impossible.