Single wife? Think all is lost and life is headed for “hell in a hand basket?” Keep reading. . . 

The bed made a thud when I sat on it. Morning came quite early, much as it might have for Abraham, as he waited to offer Issac to God. When I looked out the window nothing moved me, not even the fall array of colors. Mid sigh, my phone lit up with notification of a text from a friend in another state. This made me smile. For a moment.

The sigh, almost hope, tuned back into a much deeper sigh. My friend texted to request prayer for her husband. She had lost two, one to cancer, and another to an extensive stroke.  Now her joy faced yet another round of difficult health news. Maybe.

My words to God began almost immediately as my heart connected the miles from Colorado to Tennessee. I have to admit they turned a little dark from there. My words out loud were something in the vein of “God the whole world is going to hell in a hand-basket.” Our Father was on duty that morning though, and His words to me were quick and accurate.

“Wendy, whatever happens, hell is not your future.”

Whoosh! God slam-dunked wisdom right into my soul. He made it clear that our hand-basket is full of mercy, grace—Jesus! Just like Abraham as he climbed the mountain with Isaac and a good supply of fire starter, God had already provided. For Abraham, it was a lamb caught in the thicket. For us, it is Jesus. His love took hell off the table and whatever we face, however hard it may be, it will be nothing like the embers of punishment designed for our Enemy and his minions.

The passage in Genesis 22 says that Abraham took the ram and offered it “in the place of his son.” That is what has happened for us as well. God offered His Son, the precious Lamb of God, in place of us. Now that’s something to offer Light into our day. A Light that will follow beside  us on the darkest paths. 

Single wife? Think all is lost and life is headed for “hell in a hand basket?” Think Again!

“Then Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught by its horns in a thicket. So he took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering in the place of his son. Abraham named the placeYahweh-Yireh (which means “the Lord will provide”).