He said to his servants, “Stay here with the donkey. I and the boy will go over there and worship. Then we’ll come back to you.”
Then Abraham returned to his servants. They started out together for Beersheba. And Abraham stayed in Beersheba.
On the third day Abraham saw the place a long way off.
Abraham had his son Isaac carry the wood for the burnt offering. He himself carried the fire and the knife. And the two of them walked on together.
He said to the elders, “Wait for us here until we come back to you. Aaron and Hur are with you. Anyone who has a problem can go to them.”
Abraham did this, because he believed that God could even raise the dead. In a way, he did receive Isaac back from death.
A huge cloud of witnesses is all around us. So let us throw off everything that stands in our way. Let us throw off any sin that holds on to us so tightly. And let us keep on running the race marked out for us.