If there is one thing to be learned from the life of this patriarch Abraham it is that faith in God requires more than simple obedience it requires complete surrender God sometimes asks us to let go of the one thing we hold most dear In Abraham's case it was his son Isaac But as Abraham loosens his grip on his own possessions and tightens his grip on God's promises he will teach us all a lesson about the type of faith that pleases God
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