Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Abraham's Living Faith

Heb 11:17  By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,
Heb 11:18  Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called:
Heb 11:19  Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.

By Faith.
By Faith.
We've been studying about Faith and we need to keep on studying Faith.

Sometimes we believe that once we've read something or studied it several times that it doesn't bear studying more, but the truth is, unless we are living all the truth we've ever studied we need to keep on studying.

Abraham LIVED faith.

Abraham was rewarded with the son promised to him, a son that by all normal conventions should have been denied him forever. That miracle son was born and that birth had to be amazing. The celebrations that had to have taken place, I mean, just imagine the way Abraham and Sarah had to feel when Issac was born.

God's promised son for them had finally arrived just as God said He would.

The road to that fulfilled promise was filled with a lot of bumps but it was a road that led to truth. We have to live on that road no matter how bumpy it gets. Even when the road seems washed out we have to believe that it isn't, that maybe it's ten feet under water but it's there! Faith.  God is THERE always! God is there! God is HERE! God is forever!

Abraham had his promised son and then…

Everything that Abraham imagined was turned completely upside down.

Do you imagine Abraham had to have thought that his faith had been tested to the fullest for all he'd endured waiting for Isaac? I mean years and years and years of having his faith tested and then…

Another test, the biggest test of his faith ever.

We aren't told much about the emotions going on with Abraham, we can only go on how we might feel, but we are NOT LIVING FAITH as Abraham was LIVING FAITH.

By all accounts Abraham should have been horrified, yet again, we are determining our reactions. Could Abraham's trust, his faith, have been so perfect that he wasn't the least bit horrified?

Gen 22:15  And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,
Gen 22:16  And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son:
Gen 22:17  That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
Gen 22:18  And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.

He did NOT withhold his son, and HE COULD HAVE! He had that choice! He could have denied God's request. He was NOT forced to offer up His son to God. So many believe that God forces situations to get what He wants out of them but He doesn't!

The angel of the LORD said- because thou hast done this thing…

BECAUSE HE DID IT!

He didn't HAVE to do it!

Abraham's real faith, his living faith.

Do WE have this LIVING FAITH?

WE NEED IT!

All by the GRACE of God! All through HIS LOVE! Please LORD give us the FAITH WE NEED, faith as the faith Abraham held, all in YOU!

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