Would you kill your son?

Chapter 22 is such a chapter of Faith.

It blows my mind really. The Lord called on Abraham and told him to sacrifice his only son. I do not have kids yet, but i cannot even imagine if the Lord had told me to do that. How many of us would kill our only son and sacrifice him to the Lord? How many of us would be willing to do that for the Lords sake. Its one thing to lay down our own lives for God, but its a complete different situation to lay down the life of your son, to kill your only son....

But wait, isnt that what the Lord did for us?

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only son"

God sacrificed his son Jesus to the world, for the world.

For us.

God loves us so much. And its sometimes surreal to actually think about that. That I can have a personal relationship with him, and its through Christ that I can do that. So even though it was necessary for Christ to die on that cross, it says so much that God sent him here to die. Even though he lived a perfect life and treated everyone fairly.

But this story about Abraham is also such an encouragement to me. It shows SUCH GREAT FAITH. Abraham actually takes his son up to this mountain and ties him up and is about to kill him with a knife and then an angel stops him and tells him that it was a test from God and that he will bless Abraham because of his faith.

THIS IS TO ALL OF US:

God will bless us because of our faith. It is BY FAITH that we have been set free. We must walk BY FAITH. God blesses this, and walking by faith is most times a difficult thing to do. But the lord will always provide, just like he did on that mountain. He provided a ram to be sacrificed instead of Abrahams son. God is faithful.

Even if he is telling you to do something that seems so crazy and hard, I encourage you to do it. And its a reminder to me as well.

For some time now God has been telling me to share my faith with my brother. This may seem easy to some people, but to me it is the biggest battle I have had so far while being a christian. I just cannot get the courage to talk to him... all my fears I have are choking me. But i know it has to be done. And GOD WILL BLESS ME by doing this. So if, your reading this I could really use your prayers because fear has overwhelmed me in this area and is keeping me from sharing Christ. And i know this fear is coming from Satan. I want to talk to him on Christmas, so prayer would be awesome. Not only pray for me, but for his salvation.

Its November 27 and faith is a blessing in itself.