A Promise Keeper Keeps His Promises —Vol 4. Ch 4

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A Promise Keeper Keeps His Promises

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As I celebrated Palm Sunday this year, with my husband and my bible, reading Genesis, I was captivated by Abraham’s faith once again. At the age of seventy-five Abram was called by God to leave his homeland, Haran, and promised he and his offspring would be a blessed nation.

Twenty-five years later, yes when Abraham was 100 years old and his wife Sarah was 90, they had their first child, Isaac. 

Granted, Sarai had not been the most patient woman in those twenty-five years. (A very important story for another time.) Isaac was born to Abraham and Sarah in God’s timing, not theirs.

Somewhere around Isaac’s fifteenth year of life God calls out, “Abraham.”
And Abraham responds, “Yes, here I am.” 

God tells Abraham to take his beloved, Isaac, up on the mountain and sacrifice him as a burnt offering. The Word says that God was testing Abraham’s faith. Abraham responded faithfully. This one hundred+ year old man woke up early the next morning, he chopped wood for a burnt offering, saddled his donkey, took two servants and his son, Isaac, and began a three day journey to Moriah.

Isaac was not a baby. He was a young man. When they got to the place God told them to go, Abraham left the donkey with his servants saying: “The boy and I will travel a little farther. We will worship there, and then we will come right back.” Abraham puts the wood on Isaac’s shoulders and carries the rest. 

Notice the pronouns here. Abraham says ‘WE’ not ‘I’.  WE will worship, WE will come right back.

As they continued on their walk Isaac asked his father, “Father? We have the fire and the wood, but where is the sheep for the burnt offering?”

“God will provide a sheep for the burnt offering, my son” his Father responded.
They arrived at the place God had designated and Abraham built an altar and arranged wood on it. He tied his son Isaac up and laid him on the altar on top of the wood. Abraham picked up the knife to kill his son as a sacrifice."

Stop, stop for just a moment. Think about this unwavering trust. Abraham picked up the knife. Abraham, in faith, picked up the knife. And think too about, Isaac, a fifteen-year-old young man, out of love and respect for his father, just laid there.

This act of faith and love shakes me every time. This did not look good for the family. This did not bode well for the nation that God had promised Abraham. The entire journey was a journey of darkness. And Abraham prepared to do exactly what he was asked to do by the LORD God Almighty.

Was this an easy task? Was it hard for his son? Without relationship and faith in a promise keeping, loving, caring God would Abraham have done this? Without Isaac’s love and respect of his own father, would Isaac have done this?

“At that moment the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven. “Abraham! Abraham!” Abraham is stopped from ending his son’s life. God is satisfied with Abraham’s faith and God provides a ram caught by its thorns in a thicket. So, the two sacrificed the ram, worshiped the Lord and returned to the servants. What an act of faith in the Promise of God from them both.
We are in the moment of testing. Are we listening to God’s still small voice? Are we providing the security our children need from us, as we answer, “The LORD will provide. He alone is trustworthy,” When they ask us the big questions, “Will we have enough food, are we going to die? 

When we place our heads on our pillows at night are we handing over the world’s problems into the hands of whom they belong? Do our children see this? Even our adult children, do they see this? Do you really believe God is trustworthy? 
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Abraham named the place where he came into this deep faith YAHWEH-YIREH (which means “The LORD will provide”). To this day people still use that name as a proverb: “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.”
What? What will be provided? His promises. 
The Promise Keeper’s promises.
Yahweh Yireh!
 
Be blessed this day as we remember His promises.
Robyn Cox

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Because He is the I AM,
i am robyn rochelle cox

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