SATURDAY, 1 MARCH 2025
TEXT:
Genesis 22:1-14
1: Some time later God
tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied.
2: Then God said, “Take
your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice
him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.”
3: Early the next morning
Abraham got up and loaded his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and
his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out
for the place God had told him about.
4: On the third day
Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.
5: He said to his
servants, “Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will
worship and then we will come back to you.”
6: Abraham took the wood
for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried
the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together,
7: Isaac spoke up and
said to his father Abraham, “Father?” “Yes, my son?” Abraham replied. “The fire
and wood are here,” Isaac said, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”
8: Abraham answered, “God
himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two of
them went on together.
9: When they reached the
place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the
wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the
wood.
10: Then he reached out
his hand and took the knife to slay his son.
11: But the angel of the
Lord called out to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Here I am,” he
replied.
12: “Do not lay a hand on
the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God,
because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.”
13: Abraham looked up and
there in a thicket he saw a ram caught by its horns. He went over and took the
ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son.
14: So Abraham called
that place The Lord Will Provide. And to this day it is said, “On the mountain
of the Lord it will be provided.”
(New
International Version Holy Bible)
TOPIC:
BENEFIT OF OBEDIENCE
Abraham, the father of
all faith, related with God so well that he never took His words lightly.
God knew how dear Isaac
was to Abraham, yet, He asked him to offer the boy to Him. Abraham responded
promptly.
Ordinarily, Abraham would
have been expected to share God's request to him with his wife. However, he
chose to take off with just two of his servants and Isaac.
Arriving at Moriah,
Abraham picked all that was needed to accomplish God's request and proceeded
with only Isaac.
The benefit of not
doubting God brought fulfilment to both God and Abraham (vs.12-13).
QUESTION:
In what way does God need your obedience today?
PRAYER:
Dear Lord, teach me to obey You the way Abraham did. Amen.
Remain
Blessed
ECWA Food For The Day,
2025.
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