For anyone who has a child, you know the watchful eye you keep over their lives. From early childhood to the point of legal maturity we frequently worry about their safety.
Abraham was known as a friend of God. Abraham’s faith in God was verified by his obedience to God. In Gensis 22 we find how Abraham was tested to the utmost when God told him to take his only begotten son to Mt. Moriah and sacrifice Issac him as a burnt offering. We are not told the suffering that Abraham must have gone through. We don’t know his thoughts and how he may have tried to figure out how to bargain with God that he, Abraham, would give his life in Issac’s stead. We don’t hear about the pain and agony of his soul. We can only see the obedience of Abraham as he carried the knife that would mean the death of Issac and prove his faith.
We can rejoice that God intervened and Issac was saved from certain death. Abraham displayed the ultimate in faith when he was prepared to do what God commanded. Thousands of years later, God would demonstrate His love for us by allowing His only begotten son to die in our stead on the cross at Calvary.
Thinking about faith in action we can give thanks to God that we have a man like Abraham as a guide when we consider our sacrifices to prove our faith. We can demonstrate our faith when Christ says, “follow me?’
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