Name something you used to think about God that you no longer think is healthy or accurate. Ask God to continue to give you a true and accurate belief about and experience of God.
Pray that your church will help you and many others develop a true picture of God. As you and others seek to hear God's voice during this season, pray that you'll listen well and discern wisely, sorting out false pictures of god from the true and good God revealed in the person of Jesus.
We read this passage in theology class last year, too. Fear and Trembling by Kierkegaard, to be exact.
I love the interpretation given by our devotional: that Abraham thought God wanted him to kill Isaac, based on the culture he was in, in which gods required child sacrifice. God has to intervene before he does something destructive and teaches him a healthier view of God.
This has been so true of my life. Raised in a conservative Christian home, I grew up with so many rules that were constructed about what it meant to live a godly life. Many of those false ideas were shattered in my 20s, when I learned more and more to walk in freedom. Christ wanted my entire heart, not my (own ideas of) perfect obedience.
There is still more to come, I'm sure. It will take all of eternity to fully know God!
Jesus' incarnation is the reason we can know God. Sadly, so many Evangelicals see Jesus only as the reason we are saved, but He wants so much to be a part of our every day processes. He wants to know how we are feeling; He wants us to tell him our dreams; He desires to redeem us even now--the Cross was not an over-and-done-with deal. Will you open up more of your heart to Him today?
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