Pastor's Corner

Keep Looking to God.
When God blessed Abraham and Sarah with a child in their old age He attached great promises to the child. They were told that through this child God would bless all nations; that this child was the first in a long line of descendants. God told Abraham that his descendants would be a numerous as the sand on the sea shore or as the stars in the sky! How this must have thrilled Abraham and Sarah’s hearts! But then God told Abraham to do a very strange thing, He told him to sacrifice this one and only son. What makes this strange is not only the command to sacrifice him since God hated the human sacrifices of the pagan religions, but what was to become of the promise? What about all these children that were going come from this boy? I think part of what God was doing with Abraham was to ensure that Abraham keep his eyes on God and not on the gift God had given him – Isaac. It’s so easy to get focused on the gift and not on God. It’s so easy to be swept up in the “dream” of what God is doing or going to do with me that I stop looking to Him. My gift now holds my vision; the ministry that I’m involved in captures my heart and energy instead of God. So, sometimes God will make us put our gift – our dream – aside to see if our dream is more important to us than following Him. Abraham got Isaac back because he was focused on God and so God will let us have the dream back as long as we keep our eyes on Him and not the dream.
Pastor Don.