Laying Isaac Down!

In Gen.22 God asked Abraham to do something that most parents would not do. God told Abraham to take his son Isaac and sacrifice him as a brunt offering. The word does not tell us that Abraham cried, pleaded or begged God to give something else. This leads us to believe that Abraham did not question God, but set out with his son to go to the place that God had prepared.

There will come a time in the life of the believer that God will test us and ask us to sacrifice the thing that we love. It might not be a child in the literally sense, but a child none the less. Something that we carried inside of us and gave birth to, and watched it grow. The child could be a dream, a business or a ministry.

Can we trust God with that thing that is precious to us? Do we truly believe that God will not ask of us something that cost us dearly if he did not have something better waiting? In verse 17 God told Abraham that he would bless him and multiple his descendants because Abraham obeyed God.

What represents your Isaac? Are you wiling to lay your Isaac down if God asked you? Do you trust God?