Obedience is ever so important where the Lord is concerned. And thank God for Abraham who show us all that importance, and the blessings that flows from obedience.

Abraham seems to be a very loving and obedient man by nature. When his wife Sarah told him to sleep with her slave to have a child, his heir, he did, Genesis 16:1-4. When his wife once again, told him after giving birth to their promised child Isaac, to get rid of his son Ishmael and slave his mother. Being distressed because it concerned his flesh and blood son. God spoke to him and said for him to listen to whatever his wife Sarah tells him about his son Ishmael and his mother, it’s through Isaac the promise will be fulfilled. It was hard on Abraham, but once again, he was obedient.

I had thought it to be so mean for God, to say yes, for Abraham to get rid of his son according to his wife Sarah. Then it hit me, anything that is not in God’s plan or that can hamper it must go. The fact the Ishmael was mocking Isaac at the great feast given by their father Abraham. Sarah recognize trouble, the same conflict and issues she had with his slave mother Hagar when she was pregnant with him, Hagar who had despised Sarah, Genesis 16:4-6.

After all it was Sarah’s idea to allow her husband, for the sake of love, to lay with her slave to have an heir. It was selfless of her, because it must of been the hardest thing to do as a woman who loves her husband. Unlike back then, thank God we have surrogates and in vitro fertilization, because no way, no matter how much a woman loves her husband today she will not allow her husband to sleep with another woman to have his baby, especially an heir. Koodos to you Sarah! It started with Sarah and it ended with her. The Lord permitted it, because he understood her heart and mind. But there was very much hard consequences for her actions, she suffered.

Obedience, nothing like it to be blessed and highly favoured. When people see your life and you’re happy and well off. What they fail to realize is, if you live in obedience to the Lord, he provides what you need and protects you and your love ones.

When after everything Abraham and his wife went through waiting on the promises of God even by there works( planning and trying to have a child by surrogate). Remember the scripture declares faith without works is dead James 2:14-26 Abraham and his wife Sarah surely was doing all the works they can, even at the cost of causing themselves emotional pain. Then God asked Abraham to take his son, his loved child with his wife Sarah in their old age and the promise one, to go and sacrifice him. And with obedience to the Lord, Abraham took his son to sacrifice him, Genesis 22.

Was God being evil to have asked such a thing of Abraham? No!Abraham was proof that man can be redeemed from disobedience. The disobedience that lead humanity to sin(death). Now we can all understand why Abraham was chosen to be the father of all nations. God needed the bread of life for all of humanity (Jesus) to come from such a bloodline.