As I was going through my reading plan this morning I read the story of Abraham and Isaac. Now I've read this story before and heard pastor preach on this story. I'm not saying that I've never received anything before but after reading it this time this story stood out way more to me. We see how Abraham had gnarly faith in God because he was going to sacrifice Isaac. We see how obedient Abraham was because he didn't even question the Lord's gnarly request. As I was reading this (Gen. 22) when I came to the part where Abraham and Isaac were by themselve and Isaac asked his dad where is the sacrifice was, I put myself in Abraham's shoes. I asked myself could I follow through with that? I love the Lord with all my heart but I don't know how I would act if God told me to sacrifice my first born son. That hit me hard because I can't wait to be a dad, I want a son soooo bad. I'm super in love with my niece Brielle, I could only imagine how in love I'm going to be with my own kids. Having a family is a prayer of mine just as it was for Abraham. Imagine praying for years to have a son and nothing happens for a long time but you just keep praying until it happens. Then when it finally happens and your so relieved and super happy then God says "ok I want it back", how bummed would you be? Besides being super bummed, would you give whatever it is back with no questions asked with total faith and trust in the Lord?
Now I'm not writing this today to make you feel bad if your faith isn't at this level, I don't know what I would do if I was ever asked to do something so gnarly as Abraham was asked to do. I believe what I got out of this story is that no matter what God asks of us we need to be willing to do it. No matter how gnarly it is. I will say this I don't believe God will ask of you something that He knows that you can't do. I believe God knew the level of faith that Abraham had so that's why he would ask that of him. The greatest thing about this story was we see how the Lord blesses obedience. The Lord blessed Abraham and provided a sacrifice for them. I do believe that God will ask of us to sacrifice things that we hold dear, not because He's mean or needs them, but because He wants to see how much we will trust Him. And just like Abraham was blessed we to will be blessed for our obedience to God.
So my prayer for us today is that God would help us to trust in Him more each day. I pray that we would say yes to Him no matter what is asked of us. I pray for us to take things one day at a time and for faith and strength for us to let God be God.
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