The Father-Heart Of God.
There is a beautiful story in the Bible about the Father-Heart of God’s love.
In the story God reveals himself not as A Father- creator but as a Father-Redeemer.
Isaiah saw this two- fold revelation of God’s character ..To buy and bring fallen man backInto the God’s purpose, cost the Father, the life of His only Son Jesus when He died on the Cross to redeem us from eternal death.
According to God’s instruction Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering ,fire and a knife. Then lsaac spoke and said”look the fire and the wood are here, but where is the burnt offering?”
Now God after some twenty years or So tells the old father to offer up his son as a sacrifice to Him.
*The purpose of this story is to reveal an important truth because it is prophetic picture of God’s plan of redemption of all .lsaac was an obedient son ,he is a type of the Lord Jesus.Two thousand years later we see this story unfolds without any last minute rescue of the one who gives his life for sacrifice. Isaac asked his father,” Father where is the Lamb?” *And Abraham said,” God will provide a lamb for a burnt offering”.
Abraham and Isaac are a beautiful type of the Father- son relationship within the Godhead. In Gene 22:2 note that the word LOVE appeared for the first time in the Bible—“Take……your son, lsaac whom you love”.
If Abraham loved his son, how much more did God love His one and only Son! John’s gospel shows it all.We are amazed and wonder stuck .
John 3:16 says :“For God so loved the world that he gave his only son, whoever believes in him should not perish,but have everlasting life.”
They “Walked Together”. Yes, the Father has loved His son; from all eternity past…John17:14 says how much they loved One Another!.
But we too are included in this love.lt was from before the day foundation of the world, that the Lamb of God was to be slained. lt is beyond our understanding but the Father and Son planned in love for our redemption before the world was even created. They “ walked together” in that love_– for you and me .More than that they “worked it out together “on the Cross. Its true that a Holy God cannot look upon the sin but His Holy Son Jesus took the sins of the whole world upon His Holy body.He who knew no sin became sin for us, that in Him, we might become righteous before God. 2Corth 5:21.
Father never forsook Jesus in His agony in that horrible hour. Father felt the same pain what the son felt on the cross but because the Father is so pure and Holy that He could not bear to see his son’s Holy body laden with sins and so for the first time in all eternity past, His fellowship with the beloved Son was broken!
Isiah59:2 “….your iniquities have separated you from your God.”
Testimony
Sin is like fire.It burns and destroys ,the worst part is that it separates us from a loving God. Many people are in hell because they played with this fire carelessly.Today is the day of salvation,if we repent and ask for forgiveness,God is faithful to pardon us. I did that we all must come to Him to be cleansed with His blood and take hold of eternal life.
Prayer
Thank you Father for giving your Holy and beloved son to suffer and die in our place because of our sins.Thank you Lord Jesus for paying in full the penalty for our sins .
Sol. Noreen