salvation on a mountain

Psalm 118:14 New Living Translation
“The Lord is my strength and my song;
    he has given me victory.”
 
God wanted Abraham to sacrifice his only son, who had been promised when Abraham was seventy-five years old but didn’t arrive until he was one hundred. He had to obey, so he headed to the mountains with Isaac and two servants. When they reached the place for the sacrifice, Abraham and Isaac left the servants behind. Isaac carried the wood for the offering, and Abraham carried the fire and knife. “Where is the lamb for the offering?” asked Isaac. Abraham kept his answer simple: “God would provide the lamb.”
In his mind, Abraham asked God some other obvious questions. If Isaac were sacrificed, then how would God keep his promise that Abraham would be the father of many nations? Would Sarah, now well over one hundred, get pregnant again? Would God raise Isaac from the dead? Hearing no answers, Abraham concluded: that God would provide an heir.
We as followers of Jesus and readers of the scripture know what happens next.  With the altar built, Abraham would lay Isaac on the altar however, God gave him a ram for the sacrifice. With this act, Abraham showed his obedience to God and God kept his promise to Abraham. A promise that had been made nearly a half-century earlier.  Isaac would be the heir in which God would build a great nation. God had been Abraham’s strength and his song. On the mountain, God became his salvation. And became ours as well.
I want to leave you this week with these two questions:

1. From what has God saved you?
2. Have you thanked God for coming to you in your time of need and giving you the way out?