Do not lay a hand on the boy

"Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!”

“Here I am,” he replied.

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.”

GENESIS 22:1-2

Ask God not to test you, but rather, make you ready in Christ - in the spirit - in all moments. To be tested on the lines of Peter - to deny Jesus is a lesson to be learned for all who claim unabashed boldness without careful thought.

Abraham knew no other faith or belief than God. He was beyond ready to be called into action, for he was a man of great faith - and this faith was credited to him as Righteousness. It is faith and obedience that allow us to be covered and cloaked in the Holiness and Righteousness of the Spirit of the Lord, Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

Abraham believed that God was asking him to kill his son Isaac. Abraham was prepared to do anything for God because he put the way of God above his own way - his own understanding. If Abraham would have continued forward with the act of killing Isaac based on his own conviction, Isaac would have been killed and Abraham would have committed the act of a misguided fanatic.

"But the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!”

“Here I am,” he replied.

 “Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.”