For those of us who long for our own Isaac (our promise), or who’d given up our Isaac, we get to somewhat share God’s feeling of giving up His only beloved Son.

Thank you for that. (Next time, I should talk to you when I’m in the quicksand of a hard text. You could save me a whole lot of writing!)

Folks, invite yourselves over to Deb’s site He Gave Me a Dream to be encouraged and inspired.

Of course, highlighted in green. I would have expected nothing less.

To the point now. “We will worship and then come back to you.” I thought this was what he told Sarah when they, left, and I thought, ooh, he’s in big trouble when he gets home. But this is what he told his servants traveling with him. What strikes me here, and I need to spend some time with this, is that he traveled three days to get to the place where he would worship. For three days, not even sure of the destination. All the while pondering the sacrifice this worship would call for.

I don’t worship like that. Do you?

Jepthah’s sacrifice–rash and not required.

Abraham’s sacrifice–obedient, but not required.

God’s sacrifice– altogether necessary.

And look how we’re blessed because of Him.

Bible at my side, I open to Genesis 22. Some time earlier, I had highlighted in green: “We will worship and then we will come back to you.”

Imagine the “worship” that would come before an expected sacrifice of beloved child. I don’t know if I could. Lessons, all around here.

I’m linking to this from my “Soul Food” section. Um, I think I could pretty much link to every one of your posts.

P.S. You didn’t dig any dirt yet, did you? Come on I know you want to plant something! (Ahh- I know your planting seeds of a different kind-thank you for that!)