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Genesis chapter 22 verse 2.

God said take your son your only son Isaac whom you love and go to the land of

Mariah and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.

I'm a dad. I have three sons.

Let me imagine for a minute I have only one son.

Imagine you're a dad with one son and God says take your son, your only son Isaac.

Like it's like it's being emphasized here.

This is your only son that it mentions his name.

You immediately have this face, this precious face in your mind,

whom you love.

Like this text, it's almost agonizing take your son your only son

Isaac whom you love and go to this place and offer him as a burnt offering.

Oh, so many questions would come to my mind.

I trust your mind too.

So many emotions. Like we if we're not careful we can read through these

stories in scripture and just kind of bypass the wrestling, the emotions. I mean

verse three right after this just says so Abraham rose early

in the morning settled his docking took two of his young men with him and his

son Isaac but oh between verse two and verse three I just think of all the emotions all the

wrestling all the challenges that are there that I assume are there that I know would be there for me. I trust would be there for most of us.

So we read the rest of the story and we obviously realize that this was a big test of Abraham's faith and he did indeed trust God and

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