Grandfather Abraham had been living in Ur of the Chaldees, his hometown. One day God asked him to go from one strange place to another. Then God ordered him to give Him an offering. So he followed the Will. But did he suggest it first? He didn't even pray, " God, I have already prepared a table for you, then would you please take it?" He didn't think about it. But God came and said, "You worked hard, so I will bless you. Give me an offering, and your offspring will be as many as the stars in the sky and sand on the ground."

So he did it. While serving, he should have cut the pigeon in half. But he didn't because he thought it wasn't important. How could he cut such a small pigeon? Then, why was God so angry? God promised to bless him, but afterwards he said to him that his offspring would be slaves for even four hundred years. Did the man think God was the real God? He could have thought of God as Satan.

What was Abraham's great aspect? He took the words of God seriously. When God gave him such a punishment, he considered it much more fearfully than if he killed himself, so Grandfather Abraham is great. Owing to the enormous mistake he had made he got a big shock, but he still respected God. So when he was asked to kill his own son he decided to perform it immediately, hoping that he might be forgiven. We should know how deliberately he considered God's order until he determined to follow it. Therefore, he could offer his son-given miraculously by a blessing from God when he was a hundred years old-as a sacrifice.

God gave the order and then took it back? Can it be believed? All those things are a contradiction. According to human thinking, it was an absolutely mistaken order. Even the fathers of the fallen world would not have done so if they had wished their children to be happy. How much more should God not have done such a thing? Here is a deep meaning that we do not know. Generally, fallen human beings cannot love anyone more than themselves. We cannot think beyond ourselves. Although a person is in love, he does not want to love only the other without loving himself as well. We tend to make ourselves a plus and then love others. People don't want to do anything by denying themselves.

Despite it all, Abraham chose the way of love in the position of denying himself. What kind of love did he try to look for? He wanted to find the love of God. Denying himself, his tribe and relatives, which family and tribe did he find? We should know that it was Abraham who found the family and tribe that God could be happy with even though the world objected. In spite of the fact that he gave his son as a sacrifice, he deeply desired to realize the tribe and the nation which God could be pleased with. As this desire surpassed any difficult conditions, he could overcome the way of a wanderer safely.

We need to know that he could only go along the way which God directed, forgetting such difficulty, because his desire was great and his heart was always strong. (57-295)

What kinds of people can go to Heaven? What was the reason that Abraham became the spiritual father? Abraham offered his son as a burnt sacrifice. The reason he did that was for the sake of his descendants in the future. This was his motivation. How tragic it was when he offered his own son for the children in the future. The people capable of offering their sons and daughters as sacrifices for the future more than for the present will pull the foundation for the future right into the present. Abraham gave his son for the world of the future. He loved his children more than anything in his age and in the future. But he could offer his son to God as he had the heart of loving all human beings more than his son.