Meditation on Genesis 22 for Good Friday

This sacrifice takes place on a mountain in the land of Moriah. The only other mention in the Bible of Mount Moriah is as the site where the temple is built, on Mount Jerusalem. The place where one day the sacrifice of God the Son would take place.

Isaac climbs the hill with the wood for the sacrifice on his back, as the Lord Jesus would climb the hill of Calvary carrying his cross.

When Abraham came to sacrifice his only son whom he loved, the Lord stayed his hand. But God the Father would give his one and only Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, whom he loved and would not stay his hand.

“He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all - how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?” (Romans 8:32)

What love of God for us that he would give the most precious thing he had for us:

“This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.” (1 John 4:9-10)

Abraham said: “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering” and indeed God does provide Abraham with a ram to sacrifice in the place of his Son. Abraham called that place “The LORD will provide” and it was said, “on the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.”

Praise God that he did indeed provide the one full, perfect and sufficient sacrifice for sin. The Lord Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.