Shalom,

Today's "My Utmost For His Highest" devotional by Oswald Chambers is SO important to understand!

THE SUPREME CLIMB

Take now thy son,…and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. — Genesis 22:2

Character determines how a man interprets God’s will (cf. Psalm 18:25-26). Abraham interpreted God’s command to mean that he had to kill his son, and he could only leave this tradition behind by the pain of a tremendous ordeal. God could purify his faith in no other way. If we obey what God says according to our sincere belief, God will break us from those traditions that misrepresent Him. There are many such beliefs to be got rid of, e.g., that God removes a child because the mother loves him too much — a devil’s lie! and a travesty of the true nature of God. If the devil can hinder us from taking the supreme climb and getting rid of wrong traditions about God, he will do so; but if we keep true to God, God will take us through an ordeal which will bring us out into a better knowledge of Himself.

The great point of Abraham’s faith in God was that he was prepared to do anything for God. He was there to obey God, no matter to what belief he went contrary. Abraham was not a devotee of his convictions, or he would have slain Isaac and said that the voice of the angel was the voice of the devil. That is the attitude of a fanatic. If you will remain true to God, God will lead you straight through every barrier into the inner chamber of the knowledge of Himself; but there is always this point of giving up convictions and traditional beliefs. Don’t ask God to test you. Never declare as Peter did — I will do anything, I will go to death with Thee. Abraham did not make any such declaration, he remained true to God, and God purified his faith.

AMEN! I have always hated the idea that some people have that the God Who gave His Son to die for us, would make us sick on purpose! Sickness, disease, corruption, poverty are all works of darkness that the enemy has been able to put on people because they have not known or have forgotten than GOD IS GOOD! He does not have sickness and disease to 'give'! There is NONE in Heaven! THIS is GOD'S will: 

JOHN 10:10 The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows).

AMEN! Now let's celebrate HIM and HIS WORD with this from Brooke Ligertwood and Brandon Lake called "Honey In The Rock":

Shalom in Him!