Wait upon the Lord

Scripture calls us to be living sacrifices unto God. Recall in Genesis 22 God commanded Abraham to take Isaac, his son, to Moriah and there offer him as a sacrifice unto God. What a brutal calling! See, Isaac was the promised child for whom Abraham waited over 30 years! And furthermore, he was Abraham's begotten son! Yet reasoning that God could raise the dead Abraham went forward in obedience to God.

Well brothers and sisters, had Abraham not been stopped by God, Isaac would have been a dead sacrifice, that's what was offered in the Old Testament sacrificial system. In contrast, from beginning to end Abraham was a living sacrifice, as he was called to serve God, NOT by his death, BUT in his life. He was a living sacrifice by remaining steadfast in his service when everything within him said, “No!”

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