Are you in difficult circumstances? You need to lean upon the Lord, and trust him? Is your obedience to him going to get you into some difficulty? You obey him nonetheless, and you remember the Lord sees ahead, and will provide in all things.
What is the meaning of the name? On their way up the mountain Isaac had asked Abraham where was the lamb for the burnt offering, and Abraham had replied, ‘God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering’ (verse 8). This provision in the form of the ram is what the name draws attention to. The Hebrew word used in that conversation with Isaac for ‘provide’, is the same as the word now used by Abraham in the name he gives to the place. It is a word meaning ‘to see’ and in its passive form, ‘to appear’. It comes to mean ‘provide’ by virtue of the idiomatic sense that is required by the context (Leupold). The provision of God has been the urgent question throughout, and since God does not appear visibly to Abraham on this occasion but instead Abraham hears a voice from heaven, then the name cannot refer to Abraham seeing the Lord. Aalders explains that the form of the verb, ‘to see’, is active in the name given by Abraham – Jehovah Jireh – but that the proverbial saying (Leupold), to which Moses refers at the end of the verse, has the passive form of the verb. Aalders believes that the uninspired vowel pointing which was added by the Masoretic scholars needs correcting to change the passive into an active form, but it is simpler to see the proverb as expressing the essence of the name in a different way, and expanding the name into the phrase ‘On the mountain of the Lord, it will be provided’ in order to explain it better.