Abraham reasoned that if Isaac died, God was able to bring him back to life again. And in a sense, Abraham did receive his son back from the dead. Hebrews 11:19
“Abraham envinced a growing faith in God, which he himself cultivated, and now he came to learn in a new way the truth of God’s all-sufficiency. Hence His reply to Isaac’s question as to the animal for sacrifice. “The Lord will see to it that there is a lamb for the burnt offering.” Even if he had to plunge his knife into Isaac, Abraham believed that God was able to raise his son from the dead. His faith was willing to go to the limit for he knew that “The Lord will see to it.”
Herbert Lockyer in All the Divine Names and Titles in the Bible (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1975) 22.
Are you willing to go to the limit with your giving?
Growing in generosity, being willing to sacrifice anything God asks of us, only comes from cultivating a deep faith in God. If we want to grow in the grace of giving, we must cultivate our relationship with God.
How are you cultivating your relationship with God during COVID?
By growing in our knowledge of God and living out of that knowledge, we learn by experience the all-sufficiency of God actually means all. God is able and can see to our needs just He did for Abraham.
But will we go to the limit like Abraham did?
As I lean into the “divine” aspects of generosity, I am realizing daily that it’s all about trust. Hard times reveal where we place our trust and they show the limits to which we are willing to go.
What are these times revealing to you about where you place your trust?