God Provides

Summary: The backstory to help our understanding of Genesis 22 is that God promised descendants to Abraham 25 years earlier (Genesis 12:7). For 25 years, Abraham waited. And in the waiting, Abraham turned his back on the land, lied to a king and devised his own plan; he slept with Hagar, his wife’s servant and had a son. Abraham made bad decisions, but he reversed his steps, repented and returned to God by building several altars. Perhaps the most important one is in our passage this week.