Times of Testing

There are times when we don’t quite understand what it is that God is asking of us or doing in our lives.  In those situations, we must simply trust Him and follow Him obediently and faithfully.  It doesn’t mean that we will know the answers to the questions that plague us; in fact, God may wait until we are in His glorious presence to give us those answers.  In the meantime, we must simply place our faith and trust in Him, His Word, His Plan and His purpose.  This morning we look at Abraham’s testing.  God has asked him to give Isaac, the son of promise, as a sacrifice.  The book of Hebrews tells us that Abraham obeyed knowing that God was faithful to His Word and would raise up Isaac because he was the son of promise through whom all the nations of the earth would one day be blessed.  No doubt Abraham was taxed and grieved by the command but he was faithful and obedient to comply.  When things are in flux and life is in turmoil it is imperative that we keep our faith in God and remain obedient and faithful to His Word.

By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.

_{Hebrews 11:17-19}.