The path of obedience

It can be lonely to walk the path of obedience.

The reason is because no one may understand you fully that you are walking the path of obedience.

Even your beloved family and relatives may not understand you.

But we must still walk that lonely path of obedience by just looking at the Lord until the end

Because the Lord has commanded us and it’s the Lord’s will.

That’s what Abraham the father of faith did.

When God tested him and said to him, “Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac,

and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering

on one of the mountains of which I will tell you” Abraham obeyed by faith (Gen. 22:1-3).

He rose early in the morning and obeyed God’s command by going to the place of which God had told him

(vv. 3-4) and he even stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son Isaac (v. 10).

Was Sarah, Abraham’s wife, aware of his obedience?

If she did, could she understand her husband’s obedience with her own understanding?

Not only Sarah, if Abraham relied on his own understanding, then he couldn’t obey God’s command. 

The reason is because with their own understanding, they couldn’t understand God’s command.

Did Isaac understand this obedience of his father Abraham?

He asked his father Abraham like this:

“Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?” (v. 7)

This was how father Abraham replied:

“God will provide for Himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son” (v. 8).

But why my father Abraham built the altar and arranged the word, and bound me and laid me on the altar,

on top of the word?  Why did he stretch out his hand and took the knife to slay me? (vv. 9-10)

In Isaac’s point of view, could he understand his father Abraham’s behavior?  I am sure he couldn’t.

How can we fully understand the will of our Heavenly Father with our own understanding?  

Never.  We cannot fully understand His will. 

The Lord’s will is not to be understood but to obey.

And in obeying his will, of course we want to be understood by our beloved family.

But we may not be understood by them either.  Rather, they may misunderstand us.

But we must still obey the Lord’s command faithfully as we look only to the Lord.

The reason is because that’s why Jesus did.

Jesus obeyed Heavenly Father’s will until his death on the cross (Phil. 2:8).

He wasn’t welcomed by His people (Jn. 1:11).  Rather, He was rejected by them (Mt. 13:57).

Jesus obeyed the Heavenly Father’s will until He was crucified (Jn. 19:6).

Jesus, who learned obedience from the things which He suffered (Heb. 5:8), said to His disciples,

“If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me” (Lk. 9;23).

Will you obey this word of the Lord by faith?

Will you faithfully walk the path of obedience of the cross by just looking at the Lord?

Will you walk in faith to the end as you rely on Father God

Even though your beloved family may not understand you but misunderstand you?