Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.”
Genesis 2:2
How much do we love God? We say we love Him. We say He is our biggest priority. Many of us even make the familiar statement: God, Family, Country. Do we really mean that?
Steph makes fun of me all the time because she knows I love to snowmobile. I made her sign a contract agreeing that she was marrying a snowmobiler before I gave her the engagement right. To this day, she jokes that snowmobiling comes first in my life, and then family.
The reality is that's not true at all. I do love snowmobiling. I love all the toys that I have, but the reality is that it's all just "stuff." When I was younger, i was just as happy without all this stuff, so if I lose it one day, I'll just start over again, and one day I'll probably have "stuff" again. It really isn't that important to me.
Honestly, I don't think I would say that about my family though. I love my wife and kids. I hang onto my wife and kids very tightly. I could not imagine anything happening to them. I'm very protective and I'm always afraid for them.
In fact, if I'm honest, my biggest fear is that God will take some or all of my family away from me, possibly just to test me to see if I would hang onto them above Him. Could you? Is your family more important that God?
In this story, God tested Abraham to see if Abraham's son was more important to him that God. God told Abraham to sacrifice his son to God as an offering. Could you have done this if God asked you? Is God more important than your son? If I'm honest, I'm not sure if I could do it.
Aren't you grateful we live in this culture where the probability of God asking us to do something like this is almost zero? whew!!! I know I am grateful for that!
But, today, what is it that we are hanging onto that is taking the place of God as number 1 in our life? Is it a certain friend that we know we shouldn't be hanging out with? Is it alcohol that we know is causing a distraction in our life? Is it a certain TV show, or TV in general?
What about facebook? are we spending so much time on facebook that it's replacing God as number 1 in our life? think about it!
Today, let's think on this. Let's think about what we spend our time doing each day. Let's study and determine where our priorities are at in this life. Let's make sure there isn't another priority in this life that is taking the place of God.
Like with Abraham, God may test us one day to be sure that something else isn't taking His place in our life.
Would you pass the test?
