Abraham's Faith: Faith Where You Give To God What You Love The Most.

 

(17)Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promise, was in the act of offering up his only son. (18) of whom it was said, "Through Isaac shall your offspring be named." (19) He considered that God was able to even raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively speaking he did receive him back.

Hebrews 11:17-19

There are moments in life when life is challenging, and it seems like God asks us to trust Him in ways that stretch us beyond anything we imagined. Abraham knew that feeling. Isaac wasn’t just his son — he was the promise, the future, the joy of his old age. And yet God asked Abraham to place Isaac on the altar.

Wherever you are living today,  the test feels the same. God seems to ask for something precious. Something personal. Something that feels  really difficult, if not impossible to surrender. And in that moment, faith becomes more than a belief — it becomes a God given Supernatural choice.

The Supernatural Test of Faith

Abraham’s test was supernatural because it really made no sense in the natural world. God asked him to give up the very thing He had promised. He was asking him to give up his only son, Isaac. That’s where real faith begins — at the point where living by faith collides with understanding.

For some, that test comes through unexpected loss, a difficult calling, or a step of obedience that feels risky. For others, it comes through persecution, pressure, or the cost of following Christ openly. But the heart of the test is the same everywhere: Will you trust God when doing so feels like something Supernatural has to happen.  Will you trust Him with what seems impossible?

The Surrendered Faith

I am talking about a faith that requires surrender. Listen to this: Authentic surrender is never abstract. It has a name, a face, a heartbeat. Abraham laid Isaac on the altar — not a symbol, but a son.

Surrender may look like releasing comfort, giving up control, or putting reputation at risk. Surrender may require giving up a future you carefully planned. For some of you reading this, surrender may look like laying down safety, privacy, or the right to worship freely.

But surrendered faith sounds the same in every language: “Lord, everything I have is Yours — even what I treasure most.”

The Resurrection Faith

Abraham believed God could raise Isaac from the dead. Keep in mind that, up to this time, resurrection had ever happened. That’s resurrection faith: trusting that God can bring life out of what surrender seems to sacrifice.

Resurrection faith means believing God can revive what feels spiritually dead — a calling, the death of a loved one, a marriage, a ministry, a dream. In some circumstances resurrection faith means believing God can bring hope out of suffering, courage out of loss, and eternal victory out of earthly defeat.

Resurrection faith whispers: “God can restore what you have lost or  looks like you have lost and at a great cost.”

Abraham's Faith Points to Christ

Abraham’s story is a shadow of a greater one. A Father willing to give His beloved Son. A Son carrying wood up a mountain. Jesus carrying a wooden cross. A sacrifice offered on a Mount Moriah points to the sacrifice on Golgotha's sacred hill. And a substitute provided by God. Our substitute who died for our sins.

Isaac was spared. Jesus, the Son of God, was not. A ram died in Isaac’s place. Jesus died in our place.

I hope this truth strengthens each of you everywhere you may be.— because the God who did not spare His own Son will never abandon His people. He will never abandon even you.

From My Heart to Yours

Dear Christ Follower, Abraham’s story isn’t just a lesson — it’s an invitation. Every one of us may face a moment when God asks for something we love, something we never imagined laying on an altar. And when that moment comes, it won’t feel easy. It won’t feel clean. It won’t feel simple. You may facing this challenge yourself, and you may need to lay something down for your own good, and for God's glory.

And, it may be you don't have the Christ-Follower relationship at all.  So, He is asking you to turn from your sin to Jesus. He may be asking you to surrender ... well ... you. He wants to forgive you, and give you life eternal through He who was crucified, died, was buried and rose from the dead in order for you to be set free to live. Or there really is something you need to lay down at the foot of the Cross, and it seems almost impossible

Please, dear one, remember, Abraham didn’t walk up that mountain alone, and neither do you.

The same God who met him on Moriah meets you in the dead center of your test. The same God who provided for him provides for you. The same God who saw his faith sees yours — trembling or courageous, quiet or costly.

If you let Him, God will grow in you the kind of faith that can surrender what you love most, trust Him with what you cannot see, and believe He can resurrect what feels lost. Abraham-like faith isn’t reserved for spiritual giants. It’s offered to ordinary people who choose to trust God one step at a time. My prayer is that you’ll discover that kind of faith — not because you’re strong, but because Almighty God is.

Pray With Me

Heavenly Father,

Have mercy on me, as I seek to live for you by faith, no matter what. Grant me the kind of faith that will help me face the Supernatural test to my faith, with the Faith only You can provide. I surrender to You. I want You to be in charge of my life.  I want Jesus to be Lord of my life. I have decided to follow Jesus; Therefore, give me grace to never turn back. 

You know what I am facing, today, and only You can empower me to believe, when believing seems impossible.  I do believe, O Lord. Help me overcome my unbelief.  Help me to have faith like Abraham's surrendered faith.  Help me trust in Your resurrection power that comes in, and through, our Lord and Savior Jesus, Your Son. Let all I am, and let all I do, point to Jesus, as I seek to live for Him.

I pray this in Jesus  Name.

Amen.