LEFTOVERS

Genesis 22: 1 – 12


How do you think your friends would feel if you invited them over for a dinner party, and you served them leftovers reheated in the micro wave?
First of all, I don't think anyone of us would do something like this. We would always sacrifice our time to produce our best dishes to present to our company. Why? Because we wouldn't treat our friends to something that wasn't our best.
Assuming this to be true, why don't we do the same thing for God? Offering our best as it were.

Oh God said to Abraham kill me a son
Abe said man you must be puttin me on
God said no, Abe said what
God say you can do what you wanna but
The next time you see me comin you better run
Well Abe said where dyou want this killin done
God said out on highway 61

Now there's a dilemma. How many of us would sacrifice their first born and only son​? Abraham was faced with this decision. God wanted to know Abe's level of commitment.

2 Then God said, "Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about."
3 Early the next morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about.
4 On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.

9 When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.
10 Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.
11 But the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, "Abraham! Abraham!" "Here I am," he replied.
12 "Do not lay a hand on the boy," he said. "Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.

Isaac was giving his best as well by giving his life apparently willingly. God noting their willingness to obey, stopped Abraham, and provided a ram for the sacrifice.
So far, we have never, and hopefully will never, be asked to make such a sacrifice, but God still wants us to give the best we have.
We would do it for our friends, so let's do the same for God.