The day that God asks you for something and you refuse, understand this, that thing will have taken the place of God in your life.

Then He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you.” Genesis 22:2

Abraham had many achievements, but none of them was as great to him as his son Isaac.

Isaac means smile. In other words, he brought great joy to Abraham. Because of that God asked for him, to prove that Abraham’s greatest joy was not his son Isaac, but the Altar of God.

The psalmist David wrote:

Then I will go to the altar of God, to the God of my joyful gladness; with the harp I will give thanks to You, O God, my God. Psalm 43:4

Sadly, I have seen many people achieve great things, give marvelous testimonies, and yet make a mistake that’s fatal to faith: they became attached to something God had given them.

When this happens, people are overtaken with sadness whenever they’re invited to the Altar and begin to see the Altar as a place where they will lose.

God doesn’t call you to the Altar to take something from you, but to write a new chapter in your life.

No matter how much you have conquered, it is very little compared to what God wants to do.

Now we understand why Abraham is in heaven, because God blessed him in ALL things, but he allowed himself to become attached to NOTHING!