The Holiest of All by Andrew Murray eBook & audio book

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It was a sacrifice of all his own thoughts and wishes, when hewas
kept waiting for Isaac twenty-five years. But all this was
only to prepare him for the crowning sacrifice—the giving up
of his only son, the son of the promise, to the death.
And what was it that gave faith its strength and its victory
here in this his severest trial ? It was faith in God as the
almighty One, able to raise up even from the dead. In the
birth of Isaac he had learnt to know God as the giver of life,
even where he was as good as dead. He knew and trusted his
God, as God ivJio quickou-th the dead and ealletJi the tilings that
are not as thougJi they loere. And what is it that will give our
faith the same all-victorious strength, and prepare us for the
same mighty exhibition of God's quickening power on our
behalf? If we arc to have the same faith, and the same
experience of God, we must be prepared to make the same
sacrifice. Our lesson of to-day leads us to the very deepest
roots of the life of faith. The deeper we arc willing to enter
into the death to self, the more shall we know of the mighty
power of God, and the perfect blessedness of a perfect trust.
In the faith of Sarah we saw what the meaning and the
power was of faith in the living and life-giving God. But
y\braham on AToriah carries us much further. Sarah trusted
God to supply a power that was wanting in nature ; Abraham
to restore a life that had been taken away. Sarah is the type of
a soul that waits on God for His quickening power, as an act of
grace and faithfulness, ere it thinks much of the death of .self
With her the ijuickening came to meet a deadness that appears
simply the result of the weakness of nature. With Abraham
all is different. I.saac, the God-given life, must be sacrificed,
crc this new display of power can be expected. That sacrifice
was to teach that e\cn the God-given life is still subject to the