Story of God - Part III

Story of God...

So, today I'm continuing my "Story of God" series - if you haven't read the first 2 parts, I think it may be worth while...

Now of course we went through the story of The Tower of Babylon, the story of Abram & Sarai, the story of Ishmael and Hagar, right up to the story of Isaac and the famous biblical quote "God will provide".

I must truly say, being able to meet up with a group of people and here different thoughts on whats' going on is amazing.  We could probably spend a whole night discussing one of these stories, but of course time is limited but the things we do hear and learn is just awesome.

The illustration of the Tower of Babylon - the people started doing things for themselves, and well the repercussion God dispersed the people and now you have people speaking many languages.  How this illustrates to Abram and Sarai deciding to allow Abram sleep with their servant Hagar to have a child as part of the promise from God.  Now where they doing this for God, or were they doing this for the promise?  Interesting question to think up.  Nonetheless due to them doing things for themselves - God later renames them Sarah and Abraham.  I find this illustration to be quite amazing.

Further thoughts that come up and did come up...

What would your thoughts be as a man if your wife asked you to have a child with your servant?
What would your thoughts be as a woman if your husband was having a child with your servant?
What would your thoughts be as a woman if the father of your child wasn't your husband or rather was someone elses wife?

Tough questions that we see through Sarai, Abram and Hagar....

Furthermore, it seems that lack of trust and or lack of patience was a key thing throughout the story of Abram, Sarai and Hagar.

Then we got to the story of Isaac, as Isaac is walking with his Father he asks "where's the lamb for our offering?" and we have Abraham who says "God will provide".

There are definitely some questions from this...
Was Abraham being literal?  Did Abraham know God would bring provide another lamb?
Was Abraham being "deceitful" in the sense that Abraham knew that God provided Isaac and therefore this was the sacrifice God provided?

Then questions like "how could Abraham have possibly been able to tie up Isaac seeing as Abraham would've been  at least in his 90s.  This seems like a challenging feat.

Other questions that would enter one's mind though would be
What was going through Abraham's head as he was holding the knife to go and kill Isaac?
What were Isaac's thoughts throughout this?  Was Isaac sleeping throughout this or wide awake?

Now - the Angel of the LORD intervenes - stating God would provide.

As they walked home - one would ask, how can a child trust their Father after such a thing?

The amount of questions and thought and everything that came about last night was awesome!  This definitely wasn't all of it.  This was part of it.  Definitely I'm again looking forward to our next session.

God bless,