April 1 – And come again to you

So today, in some places, it is April fool’s day, where you can trick people and if they fall for it, then you say April fool. We see in the story of Abraham, one day, when God told him to give up his son, his only son as a sacrifice. (Error) Nope. And it was not even April 1. What would you do in a situation like that? You cannot hide the child, as the God of the whole earth is omnipresent, you cannot hide anything from Him. It cannot be April fool’s, for God is not a man that He should lie, nor the son of man that He should repent, has He said and will He not do it. This is one situation that really calls for it is well.

But what did Abraham do? Well he told his servants that he and the lad were going to worship and come again to you. And what about the lad?

“And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?

And Abraham said, My son, God will provide Himself a lamb, for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.” Genesis 22v7&8

And here we get a bit of an insight into Abraham’s faith and relationship with God. When God told him to go, he rose up early in the morning; he saddled his ass, he clave the wood, and took his son. However, he said God will provide the burnt offering.

- Recalling that God had earlier told him in Genesis 17v19:
“And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.”

Now it may not be easy to stand upon God’s promises, when He puts you to test as He was Abraham, but if you recall His word, and that He thinks good thoughts towards you, then you should be just fine. So in Abraham’s case, Isaac was already the promised child, or the child named Isaac was—so God would have had to give Abraham and Sarah another child called Isaac, with whom God will then establish the everlasting covenant or … The end of the story, Abraham became even more blessed as ‘selon God’ (according to God), he had feared God and had been obedient to the point of when it hurts…and he also came to know God as Jehovah Jireh.

Have a blessed Sunday.