In Genesis 12, God told Abraham to leave his country, his family, and his security. When he said yes<\/i> to God, he travelled an unfamiliar path to an unknown destiny based on the strength of a promise. Without hesitating, the seventy-five-year-old patriarch \u2018went, as the Lord had told him.\u2019<\/i> (Genesis\u00a012:4\u00a0NIV) <\/p>\n
Now fast-forward twenty-five years and Isaac is born; the miracle son who would fulfil God\u2019s promise that through Abraham\u2019s descendants \u2018all the nations of the earth shall be blessed; because Abraham obeyed My voice.\u2019<\/i> (Genesis\u00a026:4\u20135\u00a0NKJV) Then God makes a heart-wrenching demand: \u2018Take your son, your only son, whom you love\u2014Isaac\u2014and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering.\u2019<\/i> (Genesis\u00a022:2\u00a0NIV) And in obedience to God\u2019s Word, \u2018the next morning Abraham got up and\u2026 took with him\u2026 his son Isaac.\u2019<\/i> (Genesis\u00a022:3\u00a0NIV) God\u2019s promised blessing was contingent upon Abraham\u2019s willingness to let go of what he loved most. Holding on to Isaac would have been natural and understandable, but it would have short-circuited the promised blessing. <\/p>\n
So, what are you clinging to that\u2019s blocking God\u2019s blessing in your life? Is it your children, friendships, reputation, power, possessions, comfort, habits? Abraham\u2019s willingness to sacrifice Isaac was the supreme act of faith. \u2018By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac.\u2019<\/i> How could he do it? \u2018Abraham reasoned that if Isaac died, God was able to bring him back to life.\u2019<\/i> (Hebrews\u00a011:19\u00a0NLT) Abraham believed that, with God, letting go never means losing but getting back something better. And you will too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In Genesis 12, God told Abraham to leave his country, his family, and his security. When he said yes to God, he travelled an unfamiliar path to an unknown destiny based on the strength of a promise. Without hesitating, the seventy-five-year-old patriarch \u2018went, as the Lord had told him.\u2019 (Genesis\u00a012:4\u00a0NIV) Now fast-forward twenty-five years and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}