Abraham Never Said, “I Don’t Have Peace About It.”

God told Abraham to take Isaac, the son he loved, and offer him on a mountain. Now look at the next verse. “Abraham rose up early in the morning,” saddled his donkey, and split the wood for the offering.

The text records no night of bargaining and no waiting to feel settled about it. You can read Genesis 22 all day and not hear that line once.

If God told me that, I wouldn’t have peace either, and I doubt Abraham did. The Bible doesn’t say how his heart felt, but it does show us where his confidence was. He told his young men, “I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.” Hebrews 11:19 gives the reason. He was “accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead.” He went on what God said, and I believe the peace caught up with him somewhere on the road.

This goes for dads especially, but for the rest of us too. Pray about it and get godly counsel. But when God has already spoken plainly in his Word, waiting to feel peace about it can just be putting it off. Get up early and saddle the donkey.

That’s one stop on the mountain. Hear the entire message from John 8 below.

Pastor Fortunato
Founding Pastor & Preacher of the Word.
Pilgrim Baptist Church — Cookeville, Tennessee

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