Isaac, seing the firewood and the kife, asked about the animal they would sacrifice. Abraham just answered that God would be the one to provide it. When they got to the top of the Mount Moriah, where God said the sacrifice had to be made, the jew tied his son and raised his hand with the knife to kill his son. But an angel of God stopped the old man.
How is it that God would be capable of asking a father to kill his own son? This is when it becomes interesting. Abraham waited for a long time for his son, so he practically idolized Isaac.
So to sum up, the old man did not climb the Mount to loose his son, but to find it and to loose an idol.
Abraham, doing this, understood that he should only worship God, and that he should love his son as a son and not as an idol. He not only understood the kind of love he had for Isaac, but also the love God has for all of us.
Idolatry is nothing but finding something or someone that becomes essential in your life. Someone you are related to, a job, something material, and many other things we love in a wrong way, things that we think are impossible to live without.
With the lesson God taught to Abraham, He taught him how to love the right way. The is nothing wrong with loving our family, material things we fight for, the things that belong to us, but we have to do it the right way, everything has to take its place.
If you didn´t do your sacrifice, there´s still time for you to worship God and to show Him that you love Him more than anything!
At your disposition,
Pastor Robson Cavalcante
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