The Quill and Me—Devotional Blog•Oswald Chambers Reflections

The Quill and Me—Devotional Blog•Oswald Chambers Reflections  Today's Devotional • Back to Home Page Apr 26 Today's Reading: My Utmost for His Highest Genesis 22:2 "Take now your son ... and offer him ... as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you."  Staying True to God   Chambers' title for this devotional is The Supreme Climb . It begins with the verse from Genesis 22:2, "Take now your son..." The day before this climb, God spoke to Abraham and told him to take his only son, Isaac, go to the land of Moriah, and offer Isaac there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which God would later direct him to.  Abraham believed God told him to kill his son.  For years, I believed God told Abraham to kill his son. That is how the passage always read to me — but I never understood the why behind the command. Why tell Abraham to kill Isaac when God told Abraham — through Isaac he would become a great nation? And why tell him t...