Here is a brief snippet of Soren Kierkegaard's take on Abraham's near sacrifice of Isaac. I'm sure you're tired of always hearing what I think!
"There was many a father who lost his child; but then it was God, it was the unalterable, the unsearchable will of the Almighty, it was His hand took the child. Not so with Abraham. For him was reserved a harder trial, and Isaac's fate was laid along with the knife in Abraham's hand. And there he stood, the old man, with his only hope! But he did not doubt, he did not look anxiously to the right or to the left, he did not challenge heaven with his prayers. He knew that it was God the Almighty who was trying him, he knew that it was the hardest sacrifice that could be required of him, but he knew also that no sacrifice was too hard when God required it- and he drew the knife" [Fear and Trembling, 36].
Would we agree that no trial is too hard when God requires it? And could we be so unflinching in giving up for God even that which is most precious to us?
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