Abraham arose

And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am. And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him. – Genesis 22.1-3

I messed up my scheduled and only realise today that I had confused some dates and passages so I decided to go back and get one of the passages I missed from the days of my operation and recovery in ICU.

We have to go back before the Abraham and Isaac sacrifice incident. It has not been long since God hade given Abraham and Sarah their long promised son.

Despite all that Abraham had been through God chose to give Abraham another test of faith. This was  a greater test because it truly required Abraham to do something.

God came to Abraham and said something that must have been stunning. ‘Go get your son Isaac and take him to the altar and sacrifice him to Me there.’

How in the world do you respond to that? God had given him a son after decades of waiting and now God was going to take him back?

This is why Abraham’s response was so important. Did he REALLY believe God, or was it just lip service.

So the only way to prove he believed was to act. And Abraham did. He got up to do what God told him. He arose and went.

The only way to truly evidence our belief is through obedience. That is the ultimate test, isn’t it? If we believe we act, and Abraham did and he did.