May 12th-Afternoon | HAVING BY GIVING

Genesis 22:2 – And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

This is the most absurd command that I’d ever read from the Bible. God promised Abraham the greatest blessings and that he would be the father of many nations, but He wanted the only child given to Abraham to be offered as a sacrifice? Doesn’t that sound ridiculous? It was told that Sir Leonard Wood had visited France and when the French King learned that he was in the country he sent an invitation to Sir Leonard Wood for dinner the next day. Sir Leonard went to the palace and the King greeted him in the hall saying, “Sir Leonard, I did not expect to see you because you did not answer my invitation.” Wood then expressed one of the choicest sentences of his life saying, “A king’s invitation is never to be answered, but to be obeyed.” Abraham showed the ultimate obedience to an extreme command and God honored that obedience with the ultimate blessing to Abraham’s family.