How could he reconcile the command "offer him as a burnt offering" with the promise "in Isaac shall thy seed be called"? It was his trial by fire, but he did not fail in the crucible ...God let him go through with it up to the point of no retreat, and then said, in effect, "...I wanted to remove him from the temple of your heart that I might reign unchallenged there. I wanted to correct the perversion that existed in your love." Now he was a man wholly surrendered, a man utterly obedient....


-- A.W. Tozer