GOD'S GREAT LOVE

I read Genesis 22 in my devotions today, about what was no doubt the greatest test of Abraham’s faith & obedience to God. There are incredible parallels with Christ’s crucifixion. For example, at least 3 times God refers to Isaac as Abraham’s only, beloved son.

The passage indicates that they spent 3 days traveling from their home to Mount Moriah, where God had instructed Abraham to take Isaac. Can you imagine the deep anguish that Abraham must have undergone every step & every moment of that journey toward the place of his son’s execution?

In addition, the one to be sacrificed carried the wood to which his body would be attached as he died.

There are many more details & observations that could be made, but we learn that at the very last instant, the angel of the Lord stopped Abraham from killing Isaac.

As we remember the Father sending Jesus into the world to go to the cross to give His life for our sins, one of the beautiful truths we see about God is that He doesn’t ask someone to do what He is unwilling to do.

Someone once asked a preacher, “Where was God when my son was brutally murdered?” The preacher, with tears in his eyes, said, “He was in the very same place He was when His Son went to the cross.”

For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die.But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us (Romans 5:6-8).

How great & generous God’s love is for each one of us!