「你既行了這事，不留下你的兒子，就是你獨生的兒子...，我必使你的後裔繁增，如同天上的星，海邊的沙...；因為你聽從了我的話。」－創世記22:16-18
聽從神的聲音，將自己心裡極珍至愛的事物獻與祂，祂不僅會將這事毫髮無傷地交還我們，並且還加多千倍。
亞伯拉罕聽從神的命令，獻上他獨生的愛子，捨棄對這孩子一切的希望，放棄看見他一步步成長、婚娶，並傳宗接代的渴望。
神不但平安歸還孩子，並使他的子孫如星沙之無數，甚至到了豫定的時期，耶穌基督就要出於這家。
這就是神對待所有願意犧牲自己，奉獻與祂的孩子們的方式。
只要我們捨棄一切，自甘貧窮，祂就賜我們富足；只要我們對優渥的工作不屑一顧，祂就意想不到的給我們更豐裕的職位；只要我們將心愛的理想拋在腦後，願意向著自己死的時候，祂就用更豐盛的生命和喜樂充滿我們。
這一切恩典的極致，就是我們的主耶穌基督。
然而，若我們不願學習亞伯拉罕犧牲到極點，我們就無法擁有在基督裡無窮豐盛的生命。
基督在地上所建立第一個楷模家庭，就是這樣心甘樂意的失去他愛子的性命，正如父神失去祂的獨生的愛子一樣。
我們若也想成為屬天家庭的一份子，享受家中的權利與歡樂，我們就當以此為我們的根基。
－特榮布爾
親愛的朋友啊！別以為亞伯拉罕的經歷是萬中選一，絕無僅有的事，這不過是神對待一切願付上任何代價跟隨祂之人的一個平常、正常的榜樣。
你若忍耐到底，就要得著應許；犧牲最鉅的時刻，就是祝福最豐的時刻。
－邁爾
"'Because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son...I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven;?because thou hast obeyed my voice" (Gen. 22:16-18).And from that day to this, men have been learning that when, at God's voice, they surrender up to Him the one thing above all else that was dearest to their very hearts, that same thing is returned to them by Him a thousand times over. Abraham gives up his one and only son, at God's call, and with this disappear all his hopes for the boy's life and manhood, and for a noble family bearing his name. But the boy is restored, the family becomes as the stars and sands in number, and out of it, in the fullness of time, appears Jesus Christ.
That is just the way God meets every real sacrifice of every child of His. We surrender all and accept poverty; and He sends wealth. We renounce a rich field of service; He sends us a richer one than we had dared to dream of. We give up all our cherished hopes, and die unto self; He sends us the life more abundant, and tingling joy. And the crown of it all is our Jesus Christ. For we can never know the fullness of the life that is in Christ until we have made Abraham's supreme sacrifice. The earthly founder of the family of Christ must commence by losing himself and his only son, just as the Heavenly Founder of that family did. We cannot be members of that family with the full privileges and joys of membership upon any other basis. --C. G. Trumbull
We sometimes seem to forget that what God takes He takes in fire; and that the only way to the resurrection life and the ascension mount is the way of the garden, the cross, and the grave.
Think not, O soul of man, that Abraham's was a unique and solitary experience. It is simply a specimen and pattern of God's dealings with all souls who are prepared to obey Him at whatever cost. After thou hast patiently endured, thou shalt receive the promise. The moment of supreme sacrifice shall be the moment of supreme and rapturous blessing. God's river, which is full of water, shall burst its banks, and pour upon thee a tide of wealth and grace. There is nothing, indeed, which God will not do for a man who dares to step out upon what seems to be the mist; though as he puts down his foot he finds a rock beneath him. --F. B. Meyer
