If God let you suffer, or asked you to do something that made no sense and broke your heart, would you assume He'd turned against you? That's exactly the question the story of Abraham and Isaac forces open. God gave Abraham one son after decades of waiting, then told him to take that son up a mountain and sacrifice him, and Abraham obeyed without a single question.

What hit me hardest is one word in the text: God tested Abraham. He didn't torment him, He didn't punish him, He tested him. And the moment Abraham proved he'd obey even in the dark, the knife was stopped and the reward was greater than anything he could have imagined. Faith that asks nothing of you proves nothing. If you're never tested, how can your faith be shown?

This is something I'm still living through. There are lessons in the Bible I don't fully understand and sins ...