“WE’LL BE BACK!”

Congregations worship. Families worship. Individuals worship.

Worship includes sacrifice, surrender, and service… giving, serving, praying, singing, listening.

Adam and Eve worshipped. Noah worshipped. King David worshipped. Peter and Paul worshipped. And the angels in Heaven worship.

South Georgia Baptist Church worships. So do sister churches around our town and around the world … in Africa, Europe, India, the Far East and the Middle East.

The first time that the word “worship” appears in the Christian Standard Bible is in the twenty-second chapter of Genesis.

God had miraculously given the aged Abraham a son… now God asked Abraham to give him back. “Take your son … your only son Isaac, whom you love, go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about” (Genesis 22:2).

Without hesitation or objection “Abraham got up early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took with him two of his young men and his son Isaac” (Genesis 22:3).

It was a three-day journey. Jonah was in the belly of the fish for three days (Jonah 1:17). Jesus was in the grave for three days… and Isaac was a good-as-dead for three days.

At the foot of Mount Moriah, “Abraham said to his young men, ‘Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there to worship; then we’ll come back to you’ ” (Genesis 22:5).

“We’ll be back!” Not… I’ll be back… we … both of us! Abraham trusted God. He believed.

Lord, as I approach Your royal throne, help me willingly, faithfully, bring my very best for Your greatest glory! And Lord, help me trust Your perfect will … whatever it costs!

“… think on these things” (Philippians 4:8, KJV).