「亞伯拉罕仍舊站在耶和華面前。」－創世記18:22
讓我們來讀讀創世記22章：
「神說，你帶著你的兒子，就是你獨生的兒子，你所愛的以撒。」雖然亞伯拉罕因為神的吩咐煩惱憂愁，他仍然謙卑恭敬的走上了摩利亞山，準備將他的孩子當作燔祭獻上給神；因為這是他所愛並事奉之神的命令。
這幅圖畫對今日懷疑神行動的人是何等的責備！沒有人可以用懷疑的眼光來解釋這神聖的一幕，而這也成為歷世歷代聖徒信心的榜樣。
亞伯拉罕信心的榜樣，能否成為今日神兒女的幫助？我們是否能藉著他的順服，清楚我們只要堅信不疑，必會看見神的信實？
當信心通過了極致的考驗，耶和華的使者－就是那位曾說「神的應許，...在基督裡都是是的，...對神也都是阿們的」（哥林多後書1:20）的主－對亞伯拉罕說：「現在我知道你是敬畏神的了。」
既然你能信我到極處，我也要如此全然信任你，以你為我的朋友；我必祝福你，並使你成為萬民的祝福。這是一個永不改變的定律：「那以信為本的人，便和那信的亞伯拉罕一同得福。」（加拉太書3:9）－選
"Abraham stood yet before the Lord" (Gen. 18:22).The friend of God can plead with Him for others. Perhaps Abraham's height of faith and friendship seems beyond our little possibilities. Do not be discouraged, Abraham grew; so may we. He went step by step, not by great leaps.
The man whose faith has been deeply tested and who has come off victorious, is the man to whom supreme tests must come.
The finest jewels are most carefully cut and polished; the hottest fires try the most precious metal. Abraham would never have been called the Father of the Faithful if he had not been proved to the uttermost. Read Genesis, twenty-second chapter:
"Take thy son, thine only son, whom thou lovest." See him going with a chastened, wistful, yet humbly obedient heart up Moriah's height, with the idol of his heart beside him about to be sacrificed at the command of God whom he had faithfully loved and served!
What a rebuke to our questionings of God's dealings with us! Away with all doubting explanations of this stupendous scene! It was an object lesson for the ages. Angels were looking.
Shall this man's faith stand forever for the strength and help of all God's people? Shall it be known through him that unfaltering faith will always prove the faithfulness of God?
Yes; and when faith has borne victoriously its uttermost test, the angel of the Lord--who? The Lord Jesus, Jehovah, He in whom "all the promises of God are yea and amen"--spoke to him, saying, "Now I know that thou fearest God." Thou hast trusted me to the uttermost. I will also trust thee; thou shalt ever be My friend, and I will bless thee, and make thee a blessing.
It is always so, and always will be. "They that are of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham." --Selected
