“And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.” Genesis 22:7-8
This was a most difficult question for Abraham at the moment. How could he tell his son that he was the one to be sacrificed?
So, rather than resort to trying to come up with some satisfactory explanation, he directed Isaac to trust in and wait upon the Lord.
This is where Abraham had to go for his reckoning: “By faith, Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.” Hebrews 11:17-19 Abraham did not attempt to deal with this on the circumstantial level, but only by complete trust in God’s righteousness.
There was the testing moment when Abraham had to lay hold on and bind his son, put him on the altar they had built, and draw the knife to slay Isaac. Again, this moment could only be endured by sheer faith in God’s promises, that Isaac would be alive to perpetuate the promised seed.
Whatever agony Abraham experienced and whatever fear beset Isaac, yet they were both relieved and elated when God supplied the substitute to take Isaac’s place.
When our understanding doesn’t seem to be enough for our every question and perplexity, we are counseled to ask that we might receive, and to trust without doubting, in waiting upon the Lord in full confidence of God’s righteousness.
Because Christ is our substitute and means of deliverance, rather than suffer loss and deprivation, we are assured of being made overcomers beyond our understanding.
“He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?” Romans 8:32
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