Bob Fitts on Youtube: The Sacrifice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEBmuQxXlHU

Got to watch this. Awesome! Made me cry. and making me cry everytime i see it.

Imagine what it must have been like to be in Abraham's shoes. After years of waiting for an offspring and all the promises given about that offspring. He continues to wait for that promise. years pass and he is wondering if God has forgotten. And everytime he has that little feeling.... God steps in and gives him an object lesson. Then, finally that day comes when sarah announces that she is pregnant. I can imagine Abraham on that day. He probably flipped and everybody around him came to revive him. He comes around wondering if he had a dream. And everybody is looking intently at him smiling. And he realises that it was true: Sarah is pregnant! He calls for a celebration and everybody gets a holiday that day. After nine months, the biggest day of their lives, He carries the promised child in his arms. The joy on his face, the excitement in his voice, the glow on his 100 year old face.... i can only imagine. I still see that look on every father on the day his child is born. I saw that on Wilson's face when Shayna was born and later when Andrea was born. After losing two babies, when Shayna came he cried and had to be consoled by Dr Jeeva. I can imagine Abraham crying as i am right now writing this....

If Abraham had a webcam, he'd capture every single moment of every day and he'd probably have a separate tent just to store all his vcds. But fortunately he didn't or else he would be wasting alot of resource and not living the life of a nomad. But this Abraham must have done: Memorised every line, every phrase, every action of Isaac. Measured every millimeter of his growth. Talked about him to everybody he met everyday.

So can you imagine the day God asked him to sacrifice Isaac? It might have been like having the earth swallow you up and you are in darkness so dark and silence so deep that you can't possibly express it in any way. The pain would have felt like many stabs on his heart. The stress alone would have killed him. The questions in his heart and mind would have been like a plague eating up his very system inside. Why? Why? Why? ..... But Abraham also loved God with the same passion and fire. He was torn between his two loves. But obey he must, because every good and perfect gift is from above. And Obedience was his way of life. To Obey is better than Sacrifice.

He climbs that mountain alone that day with his beloved, treasured gift. He bares his heart and soul to his child that day. Each step would have been so hard and heart wrenching... i can imagine him many times faltering and crying and stopping to steal a moment away from Isaac's view to just sob and sob. the pain, the torment, the ........

He comes to the peak of that sacred place. And prepares the sacrifice. He might as well have said take me please take me. But he did not haggle with God. It must be done. There was no choice. And to the last moment, God is watching, until he intervenes. God was giving Abraham a glimpse of the future and teaching us an object lesson. If it pained Abraham's heart to offer his son, can you imagine how much it broke God's heart to offer and see His Son on that cross for us. There was no choice. There was no other way. Blood had to be shed and no one else could do it except one without flaw or sin. And that one was His only Son! Nobody intervened that day for God. Everyone just watched. There were tears shed that day .... from above.

Now, watch the video on Youtube. The url is at the top.