You've been trying to give God enough..More discipline. More sacrifice. More effort. Negotiating with him — if I give this up, if I commit to this, if I stop doing that — maybe then he'll be satisfied. Maybe then he'll finally show up. But Genesis 22 reveals something that most Christians completely miss when they read the story of Abraham and Isaac.God never wanted the sacrifice. He already provided one.When Abraham raised that knife — fully surrendered, fully obedient — the Angel of the Lord stopped him. And in that moment God revealed what He had been pointing to the entire time. A ram caught in the thicket. A substitute already provided. A foreshadow of what was coming through Jesus thousands of years later. This was the cross before the cross.Abraham said it himself in verse 8 — "God will provide the lamb." And God did. Not through Abraham ...