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Tuesday of the Second Week in Lent
God asks Abraham to sacrifice Issac

Genesis 22:1-9 (New International Version)

Genesis 22
Abraham Tested
1 Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, "Abraham!"
"Here I am," he replied.
2 Then God said, "Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about."
3 Early the next morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about. 4 On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. 5 He said to his servants, "Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you."
6 Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together, 7 Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, "Father?"
"Yes, my son?" Abraham replied.
"The fire and wood are here," Isaac said, "but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?"
8 Abraham answered, "God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son." And the two of them went on together.
9 When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.

God’s command to Abraham to sacrifice Isaac is puzzling for two reasons. First, it seems to contradict God’s own righteousness. How can the God who cursed Cain for murdering Abel now ask Abraham to kill his son? Has God whimsically suspended his opposition to killing? Is Abraham’s God really just like all the other gods who demanded child sacrifice?

Second, the command to sacrifice Isaac seems to thwart God’s covenant with Abraham. Previously, God had promised to make Abraham very fruitful, declaring that kings and nations would come from him (Gen 17:6). But now God proposed that Abraham’s son the firstborn of this great family should die as a sacrifice! Has God canceled the covenant?

No, of course not! The point is that when God establishes a covenant with us, the only proper response on our part is to trust and obey. By means of this strange, tested whether Abraham “passed” the test, his later descendants, the people of Israel, would constantly fail it. Israel’s lack of faith and obedience would place a constant strain on her relationship with God.

In the end, God really did “provide for Himself the lamb”- His only begotten Son, Jesus, who took on our human nature, experienced temptation, and yet remained faithful unto death. Through His obedience and suffering, Jesus established a new covenant of grace and forgiveness between God and humanity. By the gift of the Holy Spirit, the Risen Lord enables us to grow in faith and obedience, so that we can become true children of Abraham.

During this holy season of Lent, we recall how God made us His covenantal people through baptism, and pray for His help to remain ever faithful.

Commitment:
I surrendered my faithlessness and disobedience to you, Lord Jesus

Prayer:
God of Abraham and Jesus, strengthen our faith so that we may obediently serve you all our days, rejecting neither your unfathomable will nor the cost of the discipleship. We make this prayer through Christ our Lord. Amen




All Lent Devotion materials are taken from 'Take Up Your Cross' - Daily Devotion for Lent 2009 by Bible Society of Singapore.

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