Day 10

Tenth Day

Genesis 21-23

"They arrived at the place to which God had directed him. Abraham built an altar. he laid out the wood. Then he tied up Isaac and laid him on the wood. Abraham reached out and took the knife to kill his son."

Question: What character do you associate with the least in this passage? : Isaac. How must it have felt to have your father be ready to sacrifice you! The Bible doesn't say how Isaac was feeling, or what he was thinking, whether or not he was crying or screaming or just laying there or what. But I mean, it must have been traumatizing . These days we would probably prescribe hundreds of hours of therapy for that, some pills too haha.

Psalm 9

"God's a safe house for the battered,
a sanctuary during bad times.
The moment you arrive, you relax;
you're never sorry you knocked."

To relax in God is rare. It is so hard for us to set aside a time for relaxation. To actually fully and completely hand it all over. But in those rare and desperate moments, we gain so much. We live so much. We feel so much. We are reminded that we are not alone, we were never meant to be alone. And the joy of relaxing, the joy of knowing you are taken care of, is moving.