Trust Me With Your Isaac By Beth Moore

  For every Abraham who dares

        to kiss the foreign field

   where glory for a moment grasped

           Is for a lifetime tilled....

        The voice of God

       speaks not but once

     but 'til the travelers hears

 "Abraham! Abraham! Bring your

           Isaac here!"

" Bring not the Blemished sacrifice.

      What lovest thou the most?

       Look not into the distance,

      you'll find your Isaac close. "

" I hear the tearing of your heart

         torn between two loves,

    the one your vision can behold

           the Other hid above."

   "Do you trust me, Abraham

       with your greatest fear?

  Will you pry your fingers loose 
      and bring your Isaac here?"

"Have I not made you a promise?
       Hold the tight instead!
 I am the Lover of your souls-
      the Lifter of your head."

     " Believe me, O my Abraham

       when blinded by the cost

       Arrange the wooded alter

     and count your gains but lost."

"Let tears wash clean your blinded eyes

              until unveiled you see-

       the ram caught in the thicket there

             to set your Isaac free."

 " Perhaps I'll send him down the mount

               to walk right by your side.

           No longer in your iron grasp

               but safer still in mine."

       "Or I may wrap him in the wind

       and sweep him from your sight 

     to better thing beyond your reach-

           believe with all your might!"

       "Look up,beloved Abraham.

          Can you count the stars?

       Multitudes will stand to reap

       from one dear friend of God."

        "Pass the test, my faithful one;

                 bow to me as Lord.

            Trust me with your Isaac-

                           see,

           I am your great reward."

Prayer Warriors: 
  Who are the Isaac's in your life? 
  The ones we can't seem to let go!
  Some are on this list and others are trails we are facing.
  No matter the who or what that Isaac is today, lay it at the alter today.
  Let our Father do what He needs to do today!