No Holding Back

DEVOTION

HEBREWS

NO HOLDING BACK

Heb 11:17-19

17 By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had received the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son, 18 even though God had said to him, "It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned."   19 Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and figuratively speaking, he did receive Isaac back from death.

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Is there anything Abraham would not hold back from God? Is there anything we would hold back from God? Why would God want to test Abraham in the first place? Did not Abraham already prove that he believed God? But God did test him, and does that mean God might test us as well? Of course it is not much of a test is we believe that God is going to undo anything that he asks of us that might be detrimental to us, as it was in the case of Abraham. Yet, the point here is that Abraham did believe God would take care of the situation no matter what, because God is far greater and far more powerful than anything we could even imagine. Abraham believed God period. Do we believe God with that kind of conviction? Do we try to take things into our own hands and rely on our doing in order to accomplish what God has asked of us? God man not ask us to offer our own son to Him, as least it doesn’t seem He would, but He could ask something of us that we might not be wanting to give up. He could ask us to move to another state, giving up our home, and all we know, as He did with Abraham. There are many things God could ask of us, and are we willing to follow? He could see if we are willing to step outside our comfort zone and do something for His kingdom. He could ask us to give up all we have, in order to further His work in other’s lives. What we have to reconcile with ourselves is that all we are, all we have is due to God, and that anything He directs us to do, we need to comply, because we believe Him and know that He is God. He is our Lord and Savior, the God of all creation. Why would we ever hold anything back from Him?