Be Still And Know

READ: Genesis 22:2 NLT “Take your son, your only son—yes, Isaac, whom you love so much—and go to the land of Moriah. Go and sacrifice him as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.” This is an incredibly tough story to cope with. My wife Sue and I have three children. The thought of offering one of them as a sacrifice is beyond my power to comprehend. I really struggle with every part of it. What is incredible to me is that Abraham agreed to do exactly what God had asked him to do, terrible as it sounded. I feel sure that if I had been Abraham I would have assumed that I had misheard God or eaten too much cheese or spent too much time in the sun. Not Abraham. God told him to offer his precious son, Isaac, as a sacrifice and off he set. This story tells me a great deal about Abraham’s faith. He was absolutely convinced that God could be trusted, and that if God called him to do this hideous thing then it must be for the best. That’s amazing faith. No wonder that Abraham was seen as t