The text is silent about Abraham’s emotional state, but we can put ourselves in his place to sense what he felt—how his heart was torn, how he avoids telling Isaac the fearful truth until the very last possible moment, how he perhaps trembles within when Isaac asks the question, “Where is the lamb?”
From where did this stricken father find the strength to carry through this fearsome task? The answer is found here in one brief phrase in verse 5: “The boy and I are going over there to worship; then we’ll come back to you.”
Somewhere in the quiet meditations of that awful night when this word first came to Abraham, there came the consciousness that God could do something to raise this boy from the dead, and Abraham clung to that hope.
So firm is Abraham’s faith in the character of God that he comes to a realization of the resurrection. This is confirmed in Hebrews 11:17, 19: “By faith Abraham offered Isaac...Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead...”. Abraham risked everything he owned and loved on the character of God and found Him to be a God of resurrection.
Ultimately, Abraham calls this place, “God will provide.” And based on this there sprang up a proverb in Israel: “When you get to the mount, it will be provided.” God’s ways with people are such that it seems as though deliverance will never come. But if we go on, it will be provided.
Our disappointments are God’s appointments. It is never too late for God.
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