Let me speak plainly. God has never required child sacrifice. It has never been His idea. Rather, it has always been humanity’s perversion—a perversion of God’s goodness and a mockery of the events that took place at the cross.
At the cross, the “Word who became flesh” stepped inside our cruel child sacrifice delusion and took that punishing transactional perversion to its conclusion. He set us free from our depraved death devotion.
For 2000 years, we’ve been awakening to this Truth. Strike that. Since the fall, we’ve been awakening to this Greater Love revelation.
Abraham, like so many today, believed the road to God went through the cruel and punishing sacrifice of his son, but God has always been like Jesus. Like an Emmaus Road Jesus, God walked beside Abraham on his road of lack, God’s true nature hidden even as He revealed Himself.
Like Jesus, God engaged with Abraham in the context of his understanding toward one end—to reveal a greater love that would reconcile Abraham to the Truth that sets him free.
On Mount Moriah, like Jesus on a cross, God stepped inside Abraham’s delusion and revealed that He is nothing like the cruel and punishing transactional gods of Abraham’s day, or those of Jesus’ day, or ours today.
God revealed to Abraham, and through him to us, that whether we understand it or not, whether we agree or not, He has always been like Jesus—a measureless love that has been reconciling us to Himself since before the fall…
This article is excerpted from my book, Leaving and Finding Jesus
Wow so thoughtful and stirring as always….always love and am so blessed and challenged in a healing way by your work. Thank you for sharing it!!
“You only need to remember My love is always with you, and in this love is always where you need to be, and with Me you are always who you are meant to be.”
“Rid yourself of all that hinders you. Love, My love, is everything, the only thing. When you are full of doubt or worthlessness, that is not My voice, that is not how I speak to My children.”
“Do not miss Me in your striving.
I do not see you as broken. I am not looking for perfection. My grace is always with you.”
“It is time to come out of hiding and remove your veil: Our hour will come when you fully accept Me, that you and I are One.”
These words were spoken to me by Jesus as he came to me in the deepest suffering that I could never even have imagined. He touched my heart with his love and my mind with his hand of gentleness and eye of Truth. He not only loves us now into eternity. He loves us FROM eternity.
I began to see the many, many, many layers of untruth, confusion, oppression, separation…were not of him.
Ideologies, identities, theories, reasons…were of our human interpretation, misunderstanding, misinformation…, and I wondered, “How is it we think we can measure the measureless?”
Thank you so much for sharing your experience and discovery. Listening to your walk and talk with Jesus, (the unrecognized to the known) brought such joyful tears.
Again, thank you for all that you are bring forth.
Hello!
I moved to Winston Salem NC from Illinois a few years back. I am looking for like-minded Grace believers and wanted to see if you know of any place where people meet around me as I see you live in the same state I now do.
Thank you!
Greetings: this comment is for Dave from Winston Salem my name is Gary and live in stokesdale NC and would love to meet you some time on this journey, have also been looking for like mindedness. Txt 6165661133