ON A HILL FAR AWAY

ON A HILL FAR AWAY

READ:  GENESIS 22:1-12

Take now your son, your only

son Isaac, whom you love.

-Genesis 22:2

I often find myself thinking back to the years when my children were young.  One particular fond memory is our morning wake-up routine.  Every morning I’d go into their bedrooms, tenderly call them by name, and tell them that it was time to get up and get ready for the day.

When I read that Abraham got up early in the morning to obey God’s command, I think of those times when I woke up my children and wonder impart of Abraham’s daily routine was going to Isaac’s bed to wake him-and how different it would have been on that particular morning.  How heart-rending for Abraham to waken his son that morning!

Abraham bound his son and laid him on an altar, but then God provided an alternate sacrifice.  Hundreds of years later God would supply another sacrifice-the final sacrifice-His own Son.  Think of how agonizing it must have been for God to sacrifice His Son, His only Son whom He loved!  And He went through all  of that because He loves you.

If you wonder whether you are loved by God wonder no more.  JOE STOWELL

Lord, I am amazed that You would love me so much 

that you would sacrifice Your Son for me.

Teach me to live gratefully in the embrace of Your

unfailing love.

God has already proven His love for you.

Have a blessed day and week ahead.

God Our Creator’s Love Always.

Unity & Peace