WAKE UP: IT IS TIME

We’ve read that we need to wake up and prepare, then we need to be alert. Today, it’s time to move on a proceed to the task. We will be looking at Genesis 22:1-3. Before this verse, we knew that Abraham and Sarah had Isaac at a very old age. When I say old I mean old. Abraham was one hundred and Sarah was ninety. Now, even when we hear someone had their child at 50, we look at them in shock so imagine. Abraham was a very faithful man who obeyed God to the point that God told him to move from his house, his lands, whatever he had he should leave it and He will show him where to go and he believed and moved. I remember saying I would have been like “Seriously Lord? Well I need to see where I’m going to know if it’s better than where I am at right now so imma pass”. But Abraham always obeyed God.

So Genesis 22:1-3 says: “Some time later, God tested Abraham’s faith. “Abraham!” God called. “Yes,” he replied. “Here I am.” “Take your son, your only son—yes, Isaac, whom you love so much—and go to the land of Moriah. Go and sacrifice him as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.” The next morning Abraham got up early. He saddled his donkey and took two of his servants with him, along with his son, Isaac. Then he chopped wood for a fire for a burnt offering and set out for the place God had told him about.” Well, Well, Well. We can all see what God is asking Abraham to do. The Bible didn’t explain this but as human, I know how Abraham must have felt. He was probably tossing and turning in his bed that night. This man doesn’t want to disobey God, he wants God to be happy so he was willing to sacrifice his only son because God said so.

This is not like my father who said to me one time “If you run away I still have five kids left. And even if you take your twin with you I still have four left”. This one is a “take you only son and be left with no son at all”. Abraham being Abraham was so obedient. God has never failed him before so he was probably basing this on the fact that our God never fails us. What is God asking you to sacrifice today? Is it the job that pays your rent? Is it the house that you rest your head in? Is God telling you to move to another country? What huge jump is God asking you? What did God ask you to do that’s making you toss and turn in your bed? Are you ready to sacrifice and obey God? God will never ask you to do something if He doesn’t already have a plan at the end. Listen, our God isn’t a God that’ll get you to do something and say “oopsy, I shouldn’t have told them that. How are we going to fix it?” Our God is a Sovereign God, a God that has planned everything from the start. He has the blueprint of your life. He knows today you’ll lie, and tomorrow you’ll steal. He already knows that when he asks you to do this you’ll say no. He knows everything. God knows everything so asking you to do something means he has a plan for you and it’s a good one (Jeremiah 29:11).

Wake up, it’s time to do what God is asking. It’s time to obey and sacrifice. When you read further down we saw that all of this was even a test to see how faithful Abraham is. God is not a heartless God, what He has said over your life will come true. You never know that that step is where you will meet your destiny helpers, or have a breakthrough. Wake up, wake up. Abraham woke up the next day and chopped some wood for the fire, he prepared. He was alert because he knew that this was definitely from God and that he had to do it alone that’s why he told the servants to stay behind. He then knew it was time when he got up on the mountain and tied Isaac up. This three weeks, I don’t know about you but I just know that God wants us to wake up. We are deeply asleep like Snow White. We need to wake up and step forward. The blessings that are overflowing this year has your name on it. Just like how when you sleep you don’t know what happens, that’s the same way you won’t see your blessing. Wake up, wake up, wake up. God bless you and have a lovely week.

Prayer: God we thank you for our lives. It is by your grace and mercies that’s why we’re still alive. Today we pray you wake us up. We pray we don’t miss out on our blessings. Let us be prepared and alert God. Just like how Abraham obeyed, let us also obey you no matter how hard the task is. We bless your name, in Jesus name, amen.