Genesis 22:1–19
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We come now to one of the highest peaks in the Old Testament, and like all high peaks, the air is thin and the climb is perilous. This chapter is a profound stumbling block for the sentimentalist and the skeptic, but for the Christian, it is a glorious vista from which we can see the entire landscape of redemption. The story of Abraham and Isaac on Mount Moriah is not a story about a capricious God demanding a monstrous act. If that is all you see here, you are reading with veiled eyes. This is a story about the nature of true faith, the cost of obedience, the heart of worship, and the promise of the gospel, painted in colors so vivid they ought to take our breath away. We live in a soft age, an age that values comfort above all, an age that has domesticated God into a celestial therapist whose only job is to affirm our choices and soothe our anxieties.