Genesis
23: Early in the story of Abraham God instructed Abraham to leave his
home land and everything he knew there, and to go to where God would
lead him. He had no reason to trust this unknown God, but over the
decades that followed he learned to trust. As an old man, Abraham asked
his servant to return to the land of his ancestors to find a wife for
his son Isaac, but sternly instructed the
servant, “Never take my son back there for any reason.” Don’t think
that this was a geographic reference. It wasn’t. Abraham knew that he
couldn't go back to his old way of life, before he knew God's goodness
and grace. His relationship with God meant so much to him that his
caution was never to let Isaac, his son, fall prey to a life lived for
anything less than God. Is there a lesson for parents today from
Abraham, our “father in faith?”
July 6, 2013
Msgr. William J. King
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