God tests everyone, and in Genesis twenty-two, he sends Abraham on his own journey, to sacrifice his own son, Isaac. After all the struggle Abraham and Sarah went through to conceive the child, God decides that the boy must be sacrificed to Him. And without even a moment of procrastination or a whisper of doom (Genesis 22:3), man sets out to fulfill God's commands. What kind of God would ask a faithful man like Abraham to commit this terrible act? I firmly believe that God did not do this so that Abraham would be deprived of the wonders of his offspring, or to have a human burnt offering for his own sake, but to gain our trust and show how trustworthy he is. And also to show that if we will just listen to what He has to say, we too will have everything “provided” for us when urgent times come. He trusted Adam and Eve, whose adversity began when they turned their ears away from Him. and he ate of the forbidden fruit (Genesis 3:6). Or in the story of Cain and Abel, Cain chooses not to listen to God and commits homicide against his brother Abel (Genesis 4:8) and is then sent to Nod. Again, another misfortune occurred when Lot's wife ignored the Lord's commandments and looked back at the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, only to be turned into a pillar of salt (Genesis 19:26). All these stories show how God trusts humanity, but we either don't listen to His wishes or we don't trust Him, and because of this disobedience we are severely punished. And this trend only continues throughout the Bible. Abraham, on the other hand, accepted his rules and did as he was told without the slightest hesitation. He slowly climbed the mountain, to the exact spot God had shown him, and built the altar, then tied up his son and prepared him for sacrifice (Genesis 22:9). But at that moment the Lord stopped him. Without shame, because he did as he was told, he announced “Here I am” (Gen 22:11). This is different from Adam who had to hide for going against the Lord's will earlier in Genesis chapter three. And unlike chapter three, instead of being reprimanded and punished, Abraham is blessed by the Lord (Gen 22:16-19), because he did what he was told even though it was a great loss to him. his family..