Abra-Man

Genesis 22
We are moving through Pastor Randy’s Thursday night study. I read Genesis 22 tonight. It’s funny how the Holy Spirit often reveals new facets to old familar stories. I was moved by the recognition that Abram took action immediately when instructed by God to sacrifice his son Isaac. He didn’t hesitate, ask God to clarify or confirm, didn’t do the many things a less faithful, less sure man would have done.

And the inner turmoil! A case of antacid could not not have soothed his roiling insides. The burden dread of the task, the protective answer, all overcome by even more enormous faith that the God he KNEW and TRUSTED would turn out all things rightly.

He had no Old or New Testament to turn to, no Christian book or video to prop himself up with. No, Abram hitched himself up, and got on with it.

I saw in this that the woman and man of God is at her best when obedience is sure and decisive, not double-minded. The pain is not shunned or avoided, but confronted head on. I would to have that faith.

But if I am intimate with God as Abram was, I can.