Spiritual Giant -- Spiritual Weakling

Spiritual Giant Spiritual Weakling

Now it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am." Then He said, "Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you." So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him and Isaac his son...and went to the place of which God had told him." Genesis 22:1-3

Can you imagine such a request? How could God ask such a thing? I imagine a thousand questions swirled through Abraham's mind, yet Abraham obeyed, and he obeyed immediately.

He believed God.

He trusted God.

When Isaac asked the obvious question, "Look, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?" Abraham responded, "My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering."

What faith!

What trust!

Before we canonize Abraham, let us consider another story that appears a few chapters earlier in Genesis (Ch 20), the story of Abraham and Abimelech. When Abraham and Sarah stayed in Gerar, Abraham instructed Sarah his wife to say that she was his sister (which was half true since she was his half-sister) believing that this would protect him from being killed on account of his wife at the hands of Abimelech king of Gerar. (Genesis 20:1-13). So where is the evidence of Abraham's faith now?

He feared man!

He trusted himself!

How is it that he was a spiritual giant, full of faith obeying God to sacrifice his own son, but a spiritual weakling when he has to trust God with his wife and life?
I am by no means pointing a finger at Abraham as if I couldn't imagine doing the same thing. (I will apologize to Abraham when I see him for using him to illustrate my point.)
One moment we can be walking by faith, obediently following Jesus, and the next moment walking by sight, doing our own thing. Moment by moment we must choose, faith or fear, obedience or disobedience, trust or distrust, belief or unbelief. This is true whether you have been a believer for 50 years, 10 years or 10 days. It is a choice, moment by moment.
What is your choice today? Will you have faith or fear? Will you trust God or trust yourself?

Will you live as a spiritual weakling or a spiritual giant?

Diane