Defeating Our Resistance to God’s Thoughts
Defeating Our Resistance to God’s Thoughts
Slightly over four thousand years ago, God issued an unreasonable demand to a man named Abraham. “Offer your son Isaac as a sacrifice,” God ordered.1
Abraham didn’t question God’s motives, he didn’t argue with the Lord and he didn’t outright reject God’s edict. Instead, he immediately prepared to destroy the son he thoroughly loved.2
Nothing in Abraham offered any resistance to God’s unreasonable command. He flowed smoothly along with God’s thoughts. His body, mind and spirit willingly yielded to what God had in mind. “Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead…”3. Abraham thought like God thought. His mind offered zero resistance to God’s will and God’s ways.
But it wasn’t always like this. …