Genesis 22:1-14 Psalm 13 (Jeremiah 28:5-9; Psalm 89:1-4, 15-18) Romans 6:12-23 Matthew 10:40-42 Propers for the Thirteenth Sunday of the Year which may be celebrated on 29th June 2008Can God do the impossible?
Even more, does God delight in making things more difficult than they already are
The story of Genesis 22 is a key narrative in the story of God's relationship with humanity.
Will we trust God even when it seems that there is nothing to suggest that God can be trusted?
Abraham has only one son, and has been promised that he will be the father of a great nation
He then comes to the belief that God wants him to sacrifice his only son
What is going on here?
This story is so dramatic that we can be easily distracted by its force.
It is about the requirement for God's people to have faith in God and God alone.
Abraham has done that, and he is not now at liberty to have faith in himself, or his son Isaac.
Having put faith in God, we are not then at liberty to put our faith in the means that God has given us
to fulfill the promise.
This may seem a subtlety,
but it is also a truth.
For example, God uses our family
our marriage, our children,
our church.
Education, work and country
to provide for us.
But we are not allowed then to put our faith in them.
If we don't understand this
....more coming
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