#118 A Surrender of Love
Posted: Saturday, December 15th, 2018
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Obedience is not just a reflexive performance of God’s will. It is richer than we know, and its power is known by too few. Would you be one of them?
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Here is a startling illustration of surrender.
Abraham had his long-awaited gift of a son, born of promise and miracle, his one hope for the fulfillment of his fatherhood – descendants as countless as the stars! We can’t imagine his joy in Isaac.
And then! God says take him and slay him as a sacrifice to Me.
Abraham rises early and prepares, telling no one who could intervene or stop him. He doesn’t hesitate or ask for confirmation. He knows that voice, He loves that Speaker. So he goes without hesitation. At the last moment as the knife is in the air, he is stopped and God supplies His own sacrifice.
This was an obedience of heart, a surrender of love. Only supreme love for God could have been this father’s willingness.
When obedience is a matter of loving God above self, no matter the cost, that is surrender.
Other Devotionals in The Power of Obedience Series
The Power of Obedience Will Change Your Life! #135 The Will of God for YOU #134 Surrender Without Resistance #133 Receive All God Wants to Give #132 What Delights God? #131 Surrender Brings Bliss #130 Inexplicable, Peculiar Joy #129 Our Consuming Fire #128 Surrender Before Obedience #127 Before Obedience Is an Action #126 Desire for His Agenda #125 An Abode within the Obedient One #124 Your Beloved Companion #123 The Absence of Love #122 The Motivation to Obey #121 And I Will Love Them #120 Four Rewards of Obedience #119 To Have God Means Obedience
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