Our text for this week is the story of Abraham being tested by God. I found insight from a piece in the Christian Century by Melinda Hinners. “The test involves the sacrifice of his son Isaac. Isaac is the child who came to Abraham late in life…Isaac was God’s gift to Abraham and Sarah. Will Abraham trust and obey the Giver, or only adore the gift? This is the test question, says Walter Brueggemann. ‘At the beginning God is the tester; at the end, God is the provider.’ Walter Brueggemann also asks, ‘Can the same God who promises life also command death?’ After all, to assert that ‘God provides’ requires a faith as intense as does the conviction that God tests. And we are not allowed to choose between God’s testing and providing, between the command and the promise.”
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