Establishing Trust in God's Plan
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Intro to Philosophy
Robert Bogner
October 29th 2012
Establishing trust in God’s Plan
The commandment coming from a sovereign God “Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about,” are words strike our hearts, and give us a sense of immorality and brutality from God. As we read these lines for the first time, we do not recognize that we do not know Abraham, we do not know God, yet we set ourselves capable of judging such situation with our mere minds. Nonetheless, in the book of Genesis on chapter 22, there is more than meets the eye. There in those paragraphs the heart of every man can rebel against God for his cruel request. However, this God which the bible speaks about, says himself “for my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts” (Isaiah 55: 8-9). Meaning then, that such request from God had such a divine plan that it can be ignored at first glance.
Abraham was a loyal man chosen by God whom had already heard the voice of the LORD through dreams, visions, visits from angels (Gen 18:2), who had trusted the LORD in previous situations, and had been witness from time to time that God’s promises always come to pass. Abraham was asked by God to leave his country, people and his father’s household and was to be lead by God to a land he would show him (Gen 12:1). It was by the age of seventy-five when he accepted God’s request, and trusted his guidance. After they traveled through several lands, the LORD appeared to this patriarch and showed him the land that He would provide for his offspring (Gen 12:7). Later on Abraham’s life, as it is recorded on Genesis 15, God promised an heir, because Abraham still remained childless at such old age, because his wife Sarah was
Intro to Philosophy
Robert Bogner
October 29th 2012
Establishing trust in God’s Plan
The commandment coming from a sovereign God “Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about,” are words strike our hearts, and give us a sense of immorality and brutality from God. As we read these lines for the first time, we do not recognize that we do not know Abraham, we do not know God, yet we set ourselves capable of judging such situation with our mere minds. Nonetheless, in the book of Genesis on chapter 22, there is more than meets the eye. There in those paragraphs the heart of every man can rebel against God for his cruel request. However, this God which the bible speaks about, says himself “for my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts” (Isaiah 55: 8-9). Meaning then, that such request from God had such a divine plan that it can be ignored at first glance.
Abraham was a loyal man chosen by God whom had already heard the voice of the LORD through dreams, visions, visits from angels (Gen 18:2), who had trusted the LORD in previous situations, and had been witness from time to time that God’s promises always come to pass. Abraham was asked by God to leave his country, people and his father’s household and was to be lead by God to a land he would show him (Gen 12:1). It was by the age of seventy-five when he accepted God’s request, and trusted his guidance. After they traveled through several lands, the LORD appeared to this patriarch and showed him the land that He would provide for his offspring (Gen 12:7). Later on Abraham’s life, as it is recorded on Genesis 15, God promised an heir, because Abraham still remained childless at such old age, because his wife Sarah was