Worship
“And Abraham said unto his young men … I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you” (Genesis 22:5).
Abraham and Isaac went to perform the highest act of worship that a father has ever been called upon to perform — to offer his own son in sacrifice to God. This was Abraham’s ultimate test of faith. Would he go through with it? We know from Scripture that he did. Abraham, who acted in faith all his life, seemed to know that somehow God would give Isaac back. And He did!
“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).
A substitute was found! But there was no substitute for God’s beloved Son. “He … spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all” (Romans 8:32).
Doesn’t that produce worship in our hearts today?
