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Isaac: A Obedient Son
(Taken from the TruthQuest Inductive Student Bible)
Genesis 22:3-
"The next morning Abraham got up early. He saddled his donkey and took two servants with him and his son, Isaac. Then he chopped wood to build a fire for a burnt offering and set out for the place where God had told him to go. On the third day of the journey, Abraham saw the place in the distance. "Stay here with the donkey", Abraham told his servants. "The boy and I will travel farther. We will worship there, and then come back."
Abraham placed the wood for the burnt offering on Isaac’s shoulder, while he himself carried the knife and fire. As the two of them went on together, Isaac said "Father?"
"Yes my son," Abraham answered.
"We have the wood and the fire," said the boy, "but where is the lamb for the sacrifice?"
"God will provide a lamb, my son," Abraham answered. And they both went on together.
When they arrived at the place where God had told Abraham to go, he built an altar and placed wood. And Abraham took the knife and lifted it up to kill his son as a sacrifice to the Lord. At that moment the angel of the Lord shouted to him form heaven, "Abraham, Abraham"
"Yes," he answered, "I’m listening"
"Lay down the knife," the angel said, "Do not hurt the boy in any way, for now I know that you truly fear the Lord. You have not withheld even your beloved son from me."
Then Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught in the bush. So he took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering unto the Lord in place of his son. Abraham named the place "The Lord will provide" This name has now become a proverb: "On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided."
Well I had a hard time choosing what to use for Isaac, because there is not much about him. So it was a choice between this one and about him and Rebekah. But I chose this one because it was a topic I have had a really hard time with in my childhood. As I am sure everyone has!
There is an aspect to this that I don’t know if many people have thought of.
Now I don’t know if any one actually knows how old Isaac was at the time, so here is what my thoughts are about him.
He could have very well been my age or older and even if he was 12 or 13 he could have EASILY overpowered Abraham. The point I am trying to make is he knew that there was no ram to sacrifice and I can’t even begin to think about the thoughts running through his head at the time. But when Abraham started to tie him up and laid him on the altar, he could have been like, "What do you think you’re doing? I am not going be your sacrifice. You can’t make me. I’m not gonna let you tie me." And things like that.
Had that been nowadays the son would have killed his father more than likely. But not Isaac.
He trusted his father to know what was best for him. He could have easily overpowered him, but he let him tie him up and lay him on the altar. And as he watched his father hold the knife above him he was probably praying and thinking, "what did I do, why is my father, who luvs me going to kill?" and maybe he was thinking, "My father knows what s best for me."
But he lay there and was prepared to die because he was OBEDIENT to his father and he TRUSTED him with his life. He knew that his father was a God following man and knew that everything was going to work out the way God planned it to. So if he had died he would have died knowing that he was following God’s will.
As I am writing this I can’t help but think about when Jesus was in the Garden of Gethsemane praying to his father, "Pleas take this cup away from me." But then he goes on to say "not my will but your be done."
It is the same thing. Isaac was tempted the same way as Jesus. And you know, when we think about this story we always think its about Abraham because he was the one who was being tested and we don’t even think about Isaac being the one who was tempted too. Isaac pasted the test too as did his father.
So when you are having a hard time with your obeying parents think about Isaac and how that it didn’t look too good for him on that altar, but he TRUSTED his father to know what was BEST for him.
Thank you for spending your precious time to read the ramblings of a 16-year-old girl who is trying to become a woman seeking the way of God.
I can only hope to become as much as a blessing as all the people I meet here are to me. SO THANK YOU.
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