To wait for a minute or an hour to pass by to find reason why you should embark on what God has assigned you to do, you will find yourself in rebellion. Your own logic will ill-counsel you to believe that you're in the right - as though your reasoning were superior to God's! Do not waste time on what God has instructed you to do. Your flesh and its lusts will cause you to satisfy your comfort and to regard God's assignment as burdensome.
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So we see Abraham sprung into action. He saddled his donkeys, took servants with him as well as the things needed for the sacrifice. And, together with his beloved son, Isaac, they embarked on this journey to the Mount Moriah. On their way to the place of sacrifice, the inquiring mind of Issac broke the long silence that enveloped everyone on this journey, when he said "Father, behold the fire, the knife and the wood. But where is the lamb for the sacrifice?"
Young Isaac has seen his father conduct this solemn sacrifices of lambs back home. Today, however, he hasn't seen any lamb and he was rightly concerned. Like every father would be sullen knowing very well they are going to sacrifice their own child, Abraham takes a different posture. It was God who gave him Issac, after he had trusted God and waited for a long time to see his birth. And if now God has made a demand to take back what He has given yo him, then God knows best. Abraham's faith has matured as we find in his response "My son, God will provide for Himself a lamb."
Abraham is teaching us a life of absolute dependence and faith in God. Notice also the question Isaac asked about the sacrificial animal. He didn't asked about a sheep, thus referring to an adult, or a grown animal. But he asked about a lamb thus referring to a lad or youthfulness, in that sense. The big lesson for us is to offer ourselves very early in life when we're young to the service of God. We are to become a living sacrifice on the altar of God from our youth!
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