Genesis 22:1-13
After all this, God tested Abraham. God said,
“Abraham!”
“Yes?” answered Abraham. “I’m listening.”
He said, “Take your dear son Isaac whom you love and
go to the land of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the
mountains that I’ll point out to you.”
Abraham got up early in the morning and saddled his donkey. He took two
of his young servants and his son Isaac. He had split wood for the burnt
offering. He set out for the place God had directed him. On the third day he
looked up and saw the place in the distance. Abraham told his two young
servants, “Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I are going over there to
worship; then we’ll come back to you.” Abraham took the wood for the burnt
offering and gave it to Isaac his son to carry. He carried the flint and the
knife. The two of them went off together.
Isaac said to Abraham his father, “Father?”
“Yes, my son.”
“We have flint and wood, but where’s the sheep for
the burnt offering?”
Abraham said, “Son, God will see to it that there’s
a sheep for the burnt offering.” And they kept on walking together. They arrived at the place to which God had
directed him. Abraham built an altar. He laid out the wood. Then he tied up
Isaac and laid him on the wood. Abraham reached out and took the knife to kill
his son. Just then an angel of God
called to him out of Heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!”
“Yes, I’m listening.”
“Don’t lay a hand on that boy! Don’t touch him! Now
I know how fearlessly you fear God; you didn’t hesitate to place your son, your
dear son, on the altar for me.” Abraham
looked up. He saw a ram caught by its horns in the thicket. Abraham took the
ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son.
Reflection questions: (1)
What do you think about this story? Is Abraham a faithful man of
God... or a child abuser? Or both? Do you think God would really make a
parent kill their own child to prove their love to God? (2) What do
you see in this story that reminds you of the story of Jesus?
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Abraham is faithful, and fearful. He's deen and spoken to God so he knows firsthand what God can do and his will. God says that not forgiving is like murder so ofcourse murder is like murder its killing a part of him. In the end, where the angel comes to Abraham and says dont do it. It makes me think of when satan tested Jesus duribg his fast. To see how far he would go...
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