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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 1 of 5
Genesis 22:1-12
We know that this story is a picture of the cross. Who is the only-begotten Son, whom the Father loves, if not the Lord Jesus? He had to be offered as a burnt offering. The place is seen from afar in the eternal counsels of God. It is mount Moriah where later David will offer the sacrifice of atonement and where the temple will be built (2 Chronicles 3:1). This place of sacrifice is also at the same time the place of worship (v. 5). How many reasons we find there for worshipping both the Father and the Son, going both of them together, in other words, with a single thought, to accomplish the work of salvation! Isaac’s obedience makes us remember the Lord’s obedience in Gethsemane: "not what I will, but what thou wilt" (Mark 14:36). But in contrast with Isaac, who simply submitted himself, the Son has offered Himself: "Lo, I come to do thy will, O God." (Hebrews 10:9). In contrast again with Isaac, who did not know what his father was going to do, we are told "Jesus . . . knowing all things that should come upon him, went forth" (John 18:4). Finally, in contrast with the cry of the Angel who stopped Abraham’s hand, no voice was heard at Golgotha to turn away the judgment sword which had to fall upon the Son of God.
