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 For me, my fascination with “it” became the most important Isaac in my life. I am forever changed by the Abraham sacrificing Isaac narrative in Genesis. As I was studying that last year, it became clear to me that God will forever be asking for my “Isaacs” until I am fully willing to live open handed and fully trusting in Him.

 
Going back to an earlier post, I talked about my sense of destiny and how I grew up believing anything short of impacting the world was just not good enough. There’s an incredible amount of pride that goes into that – an altruistic endeavor rooted in personal satisfaction and glory.  Last year, God asked for “it” back.

Now I don’t know how to explain the kind of ownership I felt I had to that sense of destiny. Did God promise that for me? I don’t really know but I will tell you at the time I felt it was my God-given calling in life to do something big. It’s a funny thing about people that do big things for the kingdom, many times you either don’t know who they are or they just have no idea the scope of what they’re doing! 

Regardless, let’s operate on the foundation that I truly believe “destiny” was an amazing, special gift from the Lord. It was precious, it was a responsibility, it was a calling. When we look at Abraham in Genesis, the promise of the Lord was not just “for a son.” The promise was very clearly Isaac. Isaac was the promise, the future the generational promise was to be fulfilled through him.

Abraham didn’t ask for it to be Isaac, he didn’t even ask to have a legacy! God was the one who volunteered and gave….and asked for it back.

I mean what audacity! God asking for the very thing promised back! It wasn’t like God asked for his wealth, health, lifelong servitude, etc. He asked for the one thing that mattered above all. Funny how “it” usually falls into that category for us.

In Hebrews 11 it says “Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead.” There was no promise there was no “calling God’s bluff.” It was three days of walking into the wilderness intent on sacrificing that which was most important. It was terrifying, saddening, maddening, illogical and a host of other extreme emotions.

So what.

What could that possibly mean to the way I live my life? If God has control of my destiny, then He’s responsible to get me where I need to be right? My response is to GO where He wants me to go and one day I might just find myself enjoying where He takes me!