LAY YOUR ISAAC'S DOWN Genesis 22:1-12;Matthew 19:16-21;Luke 17:11-19The life of faith that God calls us to is not an easy one. Like Abraham you and I may well be called to make some heartrending decisions. But also like Abraham, we can fix our confidence securely in God.We can't pass the Test of God if always put our blessing before are in front God.God is the one who controls everything and has given everything that we have.Our children, wives,loved ones and possessions.We have been gives gifts and abilities to lay everything down at the feet of Jesus.We can't know how Abraham felt on the three-day journey, or the doubts and fears that may have filled his heart and mind. But we do know that before he arrived, Abraham had worked the problem through. "Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead" (Hebrews 11:19). Abraham knew that God had promised, "through Isaac . . . . your offspring will be reckoned" (Genesis 22:18). God would not go back on His stated word. If God chose to accept Isaac as a sacrifice, Abraham would give him, sure that the Lord would give the child back again.Don't hold anything back from God when he is the giver of all things in our possessions.If God says he wants your Isaac's then given him your Isaac's.We all face this danger. In the decisions you and I make, do we look only at factors we can see? Or do we reason that God is able to alter circumstances to fit His will?Abraham reasoned that God's will is the ultimate reality and that His expressed purposes are sure.It was this kind of reasoning that takes God into account that was part of Abraham's faith. And must become a part of ours.Abraham's journey to Mount Moriah is was a test that He passed.
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