What does it mean to give your child to God?
Yesterday, I spent some time teaching my oldest daughter how to ride her bike. Today I spent some time teaching her the foundations of mathematics. My wife and I do our best to teach her (and her sisters) about God, though we seldom use such formal or dedicated settings as we use with tasks such as biking or math. Are we giving our children to God? Are we going as far as God would have us go to raise them for His glory?
Abraham was actually called to sacrifice his son Isaac to God. Sure, it was merely a sort of test of faith, but that takes giving your children to God to a whole new level. Abraham trusted God and His promises, and he was faithfully willing to give his son to the Lord. God blessed Abraham for his faith, and He blessed the world through Abraham. As Abraham was willing to give his only son for God, God would later give His only Son for Abraham and for us all.
May the Lord strengthen our faith so that we are able to give everything to Him.
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Sacrifice
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i hope that God never asks me to give up one of the kids for him because i wouldn't know how to do it. if he just wanted to take one i could...trust him and eventually come to terms with the loss but i could never purposefully sacrifice one of them. i don't want them to be loved more than God, but is it fair for God to ask such a thing of a mere human? weak and frail as i am? it's a good thing that God already knows what i can handle and won't test me beyond what i can bear. i love the kids. but even so, that love would have no meaning without the love of God.
hi! i was here.
"...is it fair for God to ask such a thing of a mere human?"
What is he asking? He is asking you to trust in Him...to have faith, and if you couldn't do it, He wouldn't ask.
Yes, it is fair.
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