Will you?

When one door closes, another opens. Life has a funny way of surprising you by the changes it requires and if you're lucky enough, you get to prepare yourself first. But, what if God calls you to do something right away? Right at this moment. Right at this time.

Will you obey?


"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways submit to Him, and He will make your paths straight." Proverbs 3:5-6


Sometimes God will ask you to surrender the things you desire the most not because He wants to hurt you but because He has greater plans in mind for you. The danger is when our hearts are not in the right position we ought to find it hard to discern why He needs to take such things in our lives. Pruning is part of the process if we want to grow in our relationship with God. He promised to cut off every branch that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. John 15:2 It might appear more reasonable if God asks you to surrender things that bring you no good but, what if he is asking for things that is delightful to us? 

Abraham, when told to go to the mountain to sacrifice his son Isaac as a burnt offering, strictly followed what God had instructed him to do. He built an altar on the mountain, arranged the wood on it and laid Isaac on the altar to slay him. Abraham never asked God, "Why?". His faith led him to that mountain with a knife on his hand ready to slay his son until the angel appeared and told him not to continue. There will come a time in our lives when God will ask us to do something we have no idea about. Abraham and Sarah waited and prayed for 25 years until God's promise come to pass and when Isaac was given to them, God asked them to sacrifice him. It can get confusing and painful when God takes away some things but we can always trust the Sovereignty of God in our situation. He makes the impossible possible and the unknown known. 


The challenge to us is to obey Him without asking why, to dive in when He asks us to jump, to trust Him even when it hurts and to fully surrender everything to Him. When we fully comprehend who God is, we can have the confidence to claim His promise even if the situation says otherwise.


The question is, "Will you surrender your Isaac to Him?"

- mt