That may seem like an odd statement, perhaps limiting God, but He has always chosen to limit his activity on earth according to men's faith (Matthew 9:29). This was the awesome moment of the faith being released! In Hebrews 11:17-19 it states that Abraham believed God would raise Isaac from the dead. And, in verse 8 of Genesis 22 Abraham tells Isaac, "My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering." And he did! Jesus, the perfect lamb from heaven was provided by God to redeem us back to himself. Amazing! Abraham had the faith for all of these things and acted on the WORD of God, therefore God released his WAY for everyone.
In a couple of days I am going to have the privilege of dancing in a piece called Make A Way for our women's banquet at church. It is a song sung from Abraham's perspective on his journey to Mt. Moriah, struggling with obeying God and giving up his son. It is very emotional. My part is to be the angel that stops him from heaven. I am dancing, of course, and as I've prayed about how to characterize an angel, I've felt that the appropriate way is to share the emotion of God towards Abraham. I do not believe God was aloof and cold in this crux of Abraham's life and relationship with God and with his son, Isaac. I think God understood perfectly what he was asking of Abraham, both emotionally and spiritually. I'm in awesome fear to be dancing such a unique role. Most of what I've done in way of Christian dance is from a human standpoint towards God, not God to man. And I find as I delve into it, God's emotion, passion and desire for us FAR exceeds ours toward him. How MUCH he loves us! He asked of Abraham to partake in that extreme love of sacrificing what is most precious in order to gain a relationship above and beyond our ability to comprehend. Jesus is the deepest passion of God, as Isaac was to Abraham, but God did the unthinkable in giving him as a sacrifice for our sins so that we could be caught up in this amazing love.
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