In Genesis 22, Abraham is asked to give his eternal mark back to God. Isaac represents Abraham's promise from God, and the extension of his life with Sarah. So God uses this incident to purge Abraham of any hold on the things here. Am I holding onto things here, things that will eventually fail? What touched or built by human hands does not wind up as ruin an trash? Am I ready, have already begun to wander afield from the stuff of this life, the "bios" of a life style wrapped in a culture and deep fried in a fading vogue? I think so, but not on every level. I have my "hold-out" items I don't want to give up. God, I'm sure, will purge me of those eventually. Oh goody.
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