Just Thinking.........Again

Abraham was called to bring his son to Moriah and sacrifice him there.  What would your response be to such a request?  Abraham hadn't always been obedient to what God had called him to do.  As he moves through his life we begin to see that he has grown in his faith to where he does what God tells him.  If Abraham had said, "My God would never make such a request" or "My God wouldn't put me in such an uncomfortable place" then we would not know the rest of the story.  We wouldn't know of the God who provided a sacrifice for Abraham.  We wouldn't know this was the story that will play out a few thousand years later when God will send His son as a sacrifice on the same mount.  If Abraham had refused we would only know of God who called him to sacrifice his son.  He would have missed out on the deeper meaning. 

When we presume to know God and how he thinks we misrepresent Him.  All the time we hear, "God would never do that" or "I don't believe in that God".  We have created our own God who just wants us to be comfortable, rich and fed.  What we end up being is lazy, overweight and a poor steward of money.  We must stop creating our own comfortable God who never pushes us out of our place to show Himself to us.  If we aren't obedient to go to the place of sacrifice when He calls us, we can never come to a deeper understanding of Him.  When Abraham walked up the mountain, neither he nor Isaac questioned what was happening.  They knew the promise God had made them.  If Isaac was to die, God had created a problem for himself.  They were to be fathers of a great nation.  How could this be if Isaac, his only son, was to be sacrificed?  They knew God's promises were sure.