“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.”
This is the first time that we read about someone being tempted in the Bible. We must be careful to understand what tempting is all about before we get too concerned. In this case God tempted Abraham. We know that God does things for good and not for bad (compare Deut 8: 2, 16 “And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no ... Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end; and Rom 8: 28 “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”) God tempted Abraham so that he would learn to trust God more fully and to understand more about the great love that God had for him at that time. God is the same today, everything that happens to us is to bring us to the stage where we understand that He really does love us and that He is always working for our good in the end.
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