He saw the place

“Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.  And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you. And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.”

Abraham was about to do the hardest thing he had ever done in his life. However, God had called him to offer his son as a sacrifice and he had spent the majority of his life doing what God had told him to do so he wasn’t ready to change his ways at this stage. His heart must have sunk when he saw the place where he was to offer his son but he continued along the pathway of obedience anyway. He didn’t want anyone else to witness the great agony of his soul so he told everyone else to stay away while he went to the terrible place with his son. In spite of the emotional agony, he took the necessary equipment for the sacrifice, this meant that he was serious about his obedience. This reminds us of the Lord Jesus Christ who headed to Jerusalem and then went with the soldiers towards Calvary. He could, at any stage, have stopped the whole process but He was saving others so He didn’t attempt to save Himself. Thank God that our perfect Saviour was willing to be the Saviour, otherwise we would still be heading for hell.

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