The Covenant Is Absolute Surrender

12/29/2024

Was it a tough decision for Abraham to kill his 20-25-year-old son, and he considered not doing it—but then finally decided to go ahead and obey and do it, all the while wondering why God was so harsh?

NEVER! Abraham totally knew, even without understanding, God is Good and whatever God wants God gets. Abraham was “fully persuaded, without wavering”—because THE COVENANT ALREADY MADE answered the question in advance: GOD WILL ALWAYS GET WHATEVER GOD WANTS, no wavering or second-guessing or finger-wagging or procrastination or regret. God WILL “work everything TOGETHER for Good” EVERY TIME, and my “understanding” is totally irrelevant. That’s the wrong tree where I want to be god. NO WAY.

The nature of the Covenant is that there should be no hesitation from us because God is God and we are all in. In Covenant it is not a new decision about whether God is right “this time” or not, or whether disobeying “this time” is an option.

When Abraham made the Covenant—he had no child! He had NO IDEA he would be asked to pull out the knife and kill Isaac—but the COVENANT was absolute surrender, so in spite of painful obedience, there was NEVER A SECOND THOUGHT about “whether” to obey, case by case. COVENANT. 9:53 a.m.

 

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