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Abraham Loved Isaac
By Brian | May 14, 2008
was going to write an article today on true love. Not the love we so like to think of as true but God’s love - and what God’s love really is. So I was poking around and I found the verse “Abraham loved Isaac…” and it just struck me that now, as I stand to lose the one person on this earth that’s most important to me, perhaps sacrifice and faith is a better topic.
To ensure there is no miscommunication in what I’m writing I need to make clear that I am not referring to my son Isaac, nor do I have any intentions of laying him on the alter. No, I am referring to my marriage that is being sacrificed.
Until now it never really sunk in that Abraham loved Isaac. It was just a story written a few thousand years ago with no real meaning in today’s world. Now, though, things are much different in my life. They are no different in God though. He certainly hasn’t changed. Abraham was willing to sacrifice his son at the request of the Lord. In the end the Lord showed mercy, and Isaac was saved. The story, though, isn’t about mercy - the story is about faith. The incredible faith of Abraham to do what he was called with no expectation of mercy from the Lord.
My marriage is on that alter. My life with a woman who means more to me than life itself is on that alter. I have no expectation that the Lord will intervene. Faith is all that I have left. Six months ago I could have said well, Abraham loved Isaac - I love my wife. Well, OK then. That was before she left. Before I started slowly dying inside. Now I can look at this verse with understanding and know how it felt to be on that mountaintop with nothing left but faith.
I’m an american - lets face it, we have plenty. Have any of us truly lived on nothing but faith? Have we ever in our hearts had to hand it all to the Lord and pray that he will show us through? Just followed the fire and the cloud? A week ago I had to hand my most precious to Him. It’s all His now but I have faith that, whatever comes, it will all remain His.