“By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, of whom it was said, ‘In Isaac your seed shall be called,””
Hebrews 11: 17-18 (New King James Version)
Lets take a quick look at a few happenings in the book of Genesis. We read in Genesis 15 : 4 , “And behold, the word of the LORD came to him, saying, “This one shall not be your heir, but one who will come from your own body shall be your heir”. And then we read in the next verse that the Lord tells Abraham (at that point still called Abram) that as innumerable as the stars are so shall his descendants be.
Genesis 17 : 5-6 , “”No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you a father of many nations.”I will make you exceedingly fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you.”
Genesis 17 : 15-16, “Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.”And I will bless her and also give you a son by her; then I will bless her and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples shall be from her.”
Genesis 18 : 1-2 , “Then the LORD appeared to him by the terebinth trees of Mamre, as he was sitting in the tent door in the heat of the day. So he lifted his eyes and looked, and behold, three men were standing by him; and when he saw them , he ran from the tent door to meet them, and bowed himself to the ground,” Verses 9-11, “Then they said to him, “where is Sarah your wife?” So he said, “here, in your tent.” And He said,” I will certainly return to you according to the time of life, and behold, Sarah your wife shall have a son.” (Sarah was listening in the tent door which was behind him.) Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age; and Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.”
Genesis 21 : 2, “For Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.”
Wow ! Isn’t that so amazing ! Can you imagine the joy of Abraham and Sarah ? I mean just see the promises of God and how it came to pass.
Now here is something interesting
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.”
What ?????
Just look at that verse …
--> Take your son
--> Your Only Son
--> Whom you love
--> Offer him there as a burnt offering
Abraham never said ‘But Lord didn’t you promise ?’..
Abraham never said ‘But Lord how could you?’
Abraham never said ‘But Lord its not fair !’
Can you just imagine the obedience of Abraham. He never contemplated … He never tried to attempt to comprehend why would God ask Him to do such a thing. He just obeyed.
We read in the very next verse , “So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him and Isaac his son; and he split the wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.”
We all know what happened after that .
Do we have a heart that truly trusts on His understanding alone? Do we obey His word whole heartedly without trying to contemplate and reason out when God gives us a command to obey ? Let this be our prayer today that the Lord will transform our lives as lives that are obedient to Him and are sensitive to His leading.
Here are few lines from a song …
“I am not skilled to understand
What God has willed, what God has planned
I only know at His right hand,
Stands One who is my Saviour”
God Bless
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