EVEN IF IT SOUNDS CRAZY

Genesis 22:2

And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

Genesis 22:2 features one of the most truly absurd commands in the Bible. God promised Abraham the greatest blessings and that he would be the father of many nations, but He wanted the only child given to Abraham to be offered as a sacrifice? Well, that sounds just outright ridiculous, doesn't it? Sir Leonard Wood visited France and when the French King learned that he was in the country he sent an invitation to Sir Leonard Wood to have dinner with him the next day. Sir Leonard went to the palace and the King greeted him in the hall saying, “Sir Leonard, I did not expect to see you because you did not answer my invitation.” Wood then expressed one of the choicest sentences of his life saying, “A king’s invitation is never to be answered, but to be obeyed.” In an extreme yet similar way, Abraham showed the ultimate obedience to an absurd command and God honored that obedience with blessings to be given to Abraham’s family throughout the generations. It's a really simple truth when it comes to God: all you have to do is obey, even if it seems absurd.