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In Genesis 22, God asks Abraham to sacrifice "his only son, Isaac, whom he loves." The story goes straight from God's request of Abraham (v. 2) to "Early the next morning Abraham got up" and started the three-day journey to make a burnt offering before God.
We don't see any negotiating with God. There's no second-guessing God's wisdom. There is only faith and obedience.
The story goes that five blind Chinese men were asked to describe an elephant. The first man stepped up to the elephant, felt with his hands, smelled with his nose and said, “It is long and narrow, very flexible – like a snake, but with a little brush on the end. It is also very stinky.”
“Long and narrow? It is more like a thick hose that, Ah! Sprays out the end!”
“It is no hose at all.” Said the third man, the shortest of the five. “It is most like a tree, rough and solid. Much thicker than a hose.”
