Abraham & Isaac

Originally posted - Thursday, November 09, 2006


I've been thinking about some things lately. I was reminded of something my Father preached regarding Abraham & Isaac. I had never heard it phrased quite like this before, but he said, "God didn't want to kill Isaac; he wanted to kill Abraham." The implication there is that God's incredible demand of Abraham to sacrifice his own son was really a command for Abraham to lay himself down on the altar. Isn't it funny that 2,000 years before Jesus walked this earth there were so many typologies. Jesus said that one must lose his life to find it. Abraham had to be willing to give up what he loved most dearly to demonstrate his love for God. Do you want to prove Christianity? Live a life of sin. That proves it. The moment your in that garbage, you see how simple the solution is. You see how the pursuit of self is a dead end. You took this turn and that turn for days, weeks, months, years. You traveled for such a long time only to realize you had gotten nowhere. If you never leave yourself, then you've gone nowhere. You've achieved nothing. You feel worthless and for good reason. I'll never forget when that passage about losing your life to find it went from just a strange phrase to revelational truth. They call it the "ah ha" moment. Why is it that we can know things like that mentally, but when it comes to living out the truth we have inside, we're so good at lying to ourselves. We're so good at suppressing what we know.

"Though he slay me, yet I will trust in him...." - Job 13:15