Is God Calling for Your Isaac?

This song has come to haunt me: 'When I Lay My Isaac Down'

by Mike Uprite.

At times what God promises us He asks for it back: Our God

given dreams, families, and ministries can get in the way of His work in our lives. This verse rattles me: "Most of us I dare to

say, we have an Isaac that is in God's way. But on the altar God

will prove, it's not your Isaac that He wants, it's you. When I lay

my Isaac down with a broken heart for my Father's crown. On

the altar there I see, it's not my Isaac God wants, it's me."

I believe the Lord is saying to many of us as this new year

begins on God's calendar, "Lay down your Isaac."

I believe the Shofar of God is blowing into our lives as we lay

our Isaacs down on His altar of sacrifice. We need to be released

from them so God can finish the work He began in our lives and

in the lives of our Isaacs. I will never forget the moment God showed me Abraham, taking his son of promise up the mountain

to sacrifice him. Abraham came down that mountain a 'dead'

man. Dead to his dream but that's when God began to bless

Isaac.

Let this verse rattle you: "On this mountain you will prove: It's

you and Isaac or it's Me and you."