Forsaking All I Trust Him
Day 33 · Genesis 22:2–3
📖 TODAY’S SCRIPTURE
Genesis 22:2–3 (NIV)
“Then God said, ‘Take your son, your only son, whom you love — Isaac — and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.’ Early the next morning Abraham got up and loaded his donkey.”
Today’s John 15 thread: Abiding in the Vine sometimes means releasing the very fruit you have been waiting for — trusting the Gardener’s hand over your own grip on what He gave you. Abraham didn’t hold Isaac tighter than he held God. That is the fruit of a branch that has truly stayed.
✍️ REFLECTION
God had promised Abraham a son for decades. Then Isaac came — born when Abraham was one hundred years old, the living proof of a promise God had made when it seemed biologically impossible. Abraham loved this boy. The Bible says so plainly: “your only son, whom you love.”
And then God asks him to give Isaac back.
This is one of the hardest passages in the whole Bible. And the part that stops me every time is not the request — it’s the response.
“Early the next morning Abraham got up and loaded his donkey.”
No hesitation. No bargaining. No day to think about it. Just: the very next morning, he was ready to go.
Q1: What has God given you that has become so precious to you that it would genuinely be hard to release if He asked — a dream, a relationship, a role, a child, a plan for your life?
Why could Abraham move so quickly? I think it comes down to this: Isaac was not just a son. He was the evidence of God’s covenant. The living proof of a promise. Abraham had seen God keep His word against impossible odds. And somewhere in that long history with God, he had come to understand that whatever God asks you to release — He is still faithful. He is still the One who provides.
Job said it this way: “The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised.” (Job 1:21) It is easy to quote that verse. It is something else to live it.
Abraham got up the next morning because he had learned that God can be trusted with the dearest thing in his life. Not just trusted with his blessings — trusted with his Isaac.
Q2: Abraham got up “early the next morning” — no hesitation. Is there an area of obedience in your life where you’ve been slow to get up and go? What is keeping you?
Someone once summed up faith this way: F.A.I.T.H. — Forsaking All I Trust Him.
Not forsaking some things. Not forsaking the easier things. All. The nearest and the dearest.
And here is the thing — God did not let Abraham go through with it. He stopped him. He provided the ram. He showed Abraham that He never wanted Isaac’s death — He wanted Abraham’s heart. He wanted to know: do you trust me with everything, including the promise itself?
The answer was yes.
And because it was yes, the blessing that followed was greater than anything Abraham had previously received.
Q3: What does F.A.I.T.H. — Forsaking All I Trust Him — look like in your life right now? What is the “Isaac” God might be asking you to release your grip on?
🌿 REMAIN IN HIM
Take a moment before you move on. This isn’t a to-do. It’s an invitation to stay.
Reflect honestly: Is there something God has given you that you are holding so tightly that it has quietly become more important to you than God Himself? Name it honestly. Don’t protect it from this question.
Bring it to Jesus: Open your hands — literally or in your mind. Hold that thing out to Him. Tell Him: “This is Yours. You gave it. If You ask for it back, I trust You.” Let that be real, not just words.
Trust the Gardener: The Gardener gives good gifts. And He can be trusted with the gifts He has given. What He asks you to release, He holds more carefully than you ever could. Trust the Gardener.
🙏 PRAYER
Father, thank You for speaking through Your Word today. I confess that I hold certain things so tightly — things You gave me — that I have made them more important than You. Forgive me. Grow in me the kind of faith that Abraham had: the kind that gets up the next morning and goes, because it trusts You with everything. The Lord gave and the Lord can take away. May Your name be praised either way. Help me to forsake all and trust You — with my plans, my people, my future, my Isaac. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
💡 MEMORY VERSE
Hebrews 11:1 (NIV) — “Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.”
This post is part of the Abide in Him Daily devotional series — reading Scripture through the lens of John 15:1–17. The branch doesn’t manufacture the fruit. It bears it because it stays connected to the Vine.
