In His Image Ministries

Saturday July 1 Bible Reading:      Gen. 22: 15 - 19 Topic:          Obedience Is Rewarded Obedience is the key to fulfilling our destiny. It is total surrender to God's Will and therefore the easiest way of attracting God's blessings to our lives. In this passage, God was evidently moved by Abraham's obedience and immediately pronounced blessings on him and his posterity. We know that God abhors human sacrifice and would severely punish all those who indulge in it as the Scripture warns us. However, the pagans in Canaan routinely sacrificed their children to idols, so in asking him to sacrifice his son Isaac, God was testing Abraham's faith in Him to see if he was willing to give up what he valued most as a sign of devotion to Him. We give total obedience to God only when we completely trust in His love and faithfulness and Abraham passed that test with flying colours. We can o...