Good Friends,
How easy it is to idolize….even loved ones. I remember a few months ago taking my 12 year old son to the Kimble art museum. We viewed a beautiful painting depicting the Abraham/Isaac scene mentioned below. As we talked about what was going on, my son asked me if I would ever do that to him. I paused and said, “Aidan, I gave you to God a long time ago”….he didn’t say a word and we just walked on. Peace and Love, Scott
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Entrust Your Loved Ones To Me; release them into My protective care. They are much safer with Me than in your clinging hands. If you let a love one become an idol in your heart, you endanger that one-as well as yourself. Remember the extreme measures I used with Abraham and Isaac. I took Isaac to the very point of death to free Abraham from his son-worshiping. Both Abraham and Isaac suffered terribly because of the father’s undisciplined emotions. I detest idolatry, even in the form of parental love.
When you release loved ones to Me, you are free to cling to My hand. As you entrust others into My care. I am free to shower blessings on them. My Presence will go with them wherever they go, and I will give them rest. This same Presence stays with you, as you relax and place your trust in Me. Watch to see what I will do.
Genesis 22:9-12 9 When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. 10 Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. 11 But the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied. 12 “Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.”
Ephesians 3:20 20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,
Exodus 33:14 14 The LORD replied, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
Daily Devotional from “Jesus Calling” by Sarah Young