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Thursday, February 9, 2012

10/27/09 Abraham


Do we unflenchingly obey God like Abraham?
Well let me back up...
Did Abraham obey unflenchingly?
Did he walk slowly to the mount of his son’s sacrifice?
Did he find other things to delay his journey?
Did he set his heart stone faced to it willfully?
Did he grudgingly march towards it?
Did he sadly wrenchingly move one step past the other?
Did he walk in peace and assurance?
Did he run wildly abandoned to it?
How did he go?  I wonder.
Was his attitude that of a servant fulfilling a duty?
Did he know instantly that God would make it right?
Was his relationship with God such that he was unquestioning? Unwavering?
How was this obedience? 
Calm?
Resigned?
Tortured?
Hopeful?
Challenged?
Peaceful?
What?

His attitude and his walk would speak volumes to me if I knew. 
That he obeyed does already.
But my soul wonders how to be in such a place as to knowingly go there in peace, even joy perhaps? 
To already know God so well as to believe steadfastly that His will was always going to be perfect?

I mean, there is knowing, and then there is KNOWING. 
And it would take true KNOWING for this task....

Would that I could surrender myself to Him in such a way as to run gladly into any appearing clamity that presents itself, knowing that my God is bigger than anything that could come my way.  That He is never going to allow anything in my life outside of His will.  KNOWING Him.
Would that I could walk in this light knowing Him so closely that there were never a nanosecond of question come across my mind when such a command was given me. 

How, father Abraham, was your heart then? 
I think that it was secure in Him all along, having walked with Him so often and for so long. 
They knew one another well. 


Oh that I could one day say the same.

And what is my Isaac sacrifice I wonder?


Jeanne 

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