Crazy

This is from our pastor in The Woodlands...it was a message I needed to hear today, especially after yesterday. Thank you all for your prayers and thank you, Lord, for knowing exactly what I need...even the right words of encouragement from you.

By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had received the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son, even though God had said to him, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.” Hebrews 11:17-18

Abraham and Sarah had waited 25 years for this boy! He was the miracle baby born when they were way too old.

John Ortberg describes this baby in their old age:

Take this child born in the geriatric ward for which Medicare picked up the tab, this child named Isaac – which means “laughter.” Abraham and Sarah laughed at first because they didn’t believe; they laughed at the sheer impossibility of it. They laughed because they were told they would have a son when they had reached an age when they didn’t even dare to buy green bananas. And after the child was born, they laughed because they did believe. They laughed that when Sarah went to Wal-Mart, she was the only shopper to buy both Pampers and Depends. They laughed that both parents and baby had to eat the same strained vegetables because nobody in the whole family had a single tooth.1

Yet, God was now calling Abraham to sacrifice this boy. It seemed crazy.

But Abraham had walked with God a long time. He knew that God was God and he was not. He knew that God could be trusted. Even when it seemed crazy.

Abraham obeyed God. He did the unthinkable. But, at the very last moment, God stopped him.

Abraham discovered again, he discovered more deeply, that God could be trusted.

Do you know that God is God and you are not? Do you know that God can be trusted? Even when it seems crazy?

1Ortberg, “The Life You’ve Always Wanted,” 211.

These Monday, Wednesday and Friday devotional e-mails are written by Jeff Wells , Senior Pastor at WoodsEdge Community Church . To hear our weekly messages or to find out more about WoodsEdge please go to http://www.woodsedge.org/.

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