I have heard it many many times. But this most recent time a couple weeks ago, my heart was opened up to a new side of this story. Sarah's side. Abraham was given a word from God to take his son and sacrifice him. Without hesitating Abraham took off early in the morning with Issac to begin is journey to the mountain God specified. I put myself in Sarah's shoes and my heart broke thinking what she must have thought. Its one thing to let go and trust God yourself, but Sarah was left trusting that her husband was hearing right from the Lord. If Nathan came home and told me God told him to take Leila and sacrifice her, I would honestly be ballistic. This showed me my lack of Trust in God and in my husband.
In Genesis 22 it does not talk about what Sarah was doing with this time it took Abraham and Issac to go to the mountain. But it states in vs. 4 "On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance." THIRD DAY.... It was probably a whole week that Sarah waited to hear back from Abraham. A whole week that she anticipated the sacrifice of her son. I can imagine Sarah on her face praying fiercely this entire time. Praying for her grief. Praying for her husband's grief. Praying for trust. Praying for her Son. Just being in constant prayer.
I'm working on that level of trust. Trust in our Lord. And Trusting my husband and his walk with the Lord.
To back up my prayers in trust...
Ephesians 5:22-24
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do the Lord. For the Husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, hhis body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
Psalms 13:5
But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation.
Psalms 28:7
The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song.
Psalms 112:7
He will have no fear of bad news; his heart is steadfast, trusting in the Lord.
