Freedom

I was challenged this morning about obedience to God.  As I read the story of Abraham sacrificing his son Isaac - which I have read many times - I was struck by Abraham's response to God.  God tells him to "take your son, ... and offer him there as a burnt offering..."  Now listen to how Abraham responds.  "So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey,...and his son Isaac.  And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him."  Do you catch what I did?  Abraham had no hesitation in obeying God.  No questions.  He just did it.  We know that God spared Isaac's life but what a test of Abraham's faith.  How would I pass such a test?  That one - I would fail.  I don't like that I'm not there yet.  Yet even as I think about my life I continue to fail the tests in my faith.  But you know?  Jesus was the sacrifice that paid for all of my failures.  I can live in the grace that washes over me.  I don't have to be bound by my failures but I can live in the freedom that Christ has brought into my life.  Galatians 5:1 "It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.  Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery."

Halleluiah!  Praise Jesus!