Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, January 7th.

Your devotion to Jesus is revealed and refined when it's tested.

Join us as our series continues exploring why your commitment is often put on trial.

It really doesn't make any difference how committed you are to Jesus Christ.

Your commitment is going to be tested somewhere along the way. So the title of this message is

commitment on trial. And if you'll turn to Genesis chapter 22, beginning in verse one,

we want to couch the title of this and this message in the life of Abraham,

a man who was surely committed to the Lord God. And yet God gave him one of the most difficult

test that any person could ever face concerning their commitment to the Lord. And if you recall that

God had chosen him back over in Chapter 11 out of a pagan

society, out of that pagan society, he gave him a command to leave his family, go into a land

that God would show him later. And then as the Lord challenged him time after time, he brought him

to the most crucial test of his life. And chapter 22, beginning in verse

one, says, it came about after these things that God tested Abraham and said to him, Abraham,

and listen, and he said, here I am. Now that's commitment. Not waiting around, here I am. He said, take now your son, your only son,

whom you love, Isaac, go to the land of Moriah and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the

mountains of which I will tell you. So Abraham rose up early in the morning, settled his donkey,

took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son,

and he spit wood for the burnt offering and rose and went to the place which God had told him.

On the third day, Abraham raised his eyes and saw the place from a distance.

And Abraham said to his young men, stay here with the donkey, and I and the lad will go yonder,

and we will worship and return to you. Now, in the Hebrew, when yonder and we will worship and return to you.

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