Standing Between A Wall and A Hard Place: Is Jesus There Also

I believed that being a Christian is the way in which the great God of the universe want me to serve and worship him; I cannot say it is the same for all individual. That is why the Holy Bible admonishes us to workout our own salvation in fear and trembling. I cannot say with any degree of certainty that all Christian ought to serve and worship Jehovah God in the same manner that I do; for Jehovah God gives each of us a conscience whereby the Holy Spirit communicates God’s instructions to every individual. And it is clear that as you do not know the nature of the instructions, directions and my understanding of those instructions and direction the Holy Spirit give to me, neither do I know the nature of the instruction, guidance and your understanding of the instructions and directs he give to you.


Let us take as an example Abraham: when God told Abraham to offer his son Isaac as a sacrifice, although taking the life of his son whom he had grown to love dearly weighed heavily on him it was not what caused the greatest of his grief. Previously Abraham has proven that he was willing to give up even his closest family in obedience to God. Abraham has proven not even his love for his mother, father, brothers, sisters, friends or other family members has the ability to keep him from being obedient to Jehovah God. However this new request/command poses some new challenges and placed Abraham between a rock and a hard place. This new command from God to offer his son as a sacrifice made it impossible for Abraham to please God; for to kill his son was in direct contravention of God’s spoken and written Command: “Thou Shall Not Kill” and to disobey God’s command to give his son as a sacrifice was to disobey a direct command given to him by the Great omnipotent God himself.


Abraham was not one who was going to let something as trivial as a gift come between him and the Giver of gifts. Abraham understood God and his creative, restorative and other abilities. He knew that his God; Jehovah, is able to do even the impossible and all Abraham really wanted to do was to please Jehovah.


These new instructions were a total contradiction to the commandment which was given by the same God, which says: Thou Shall Not Kill. What was Abraham to do? Was he to obey the commandment which was written in stone with God’s own hands or was he to obey the voice of God? Lets us be honest and be very imaginative at the same time. If God appear to you in a manner of his choosing and instructed you in the same manner as he did Abraham what would you have done?

Let us confuse ourselves a bit more: If Abraham had sacrificed his son on the alter he would have been in direct violation of two body of laws.

• The Law of God which was spoken by Jehovah’s own mouth and was written in stone with his very own fingers.


• Then he would have broken the law of man (which is base on God’s law) which make it unlawful to take the life of another unless it is in self defense (defense of ones life).

But we may rationalized the situation by saying; God cannot Go back on his words so it could not have been God instructing Abraham, or you may say God is the one who made the law so he can cause, support or instruct an individual to break that law at any time. Is that really true?

It was never God’s intention for Abraham to break any of his holy law, but it was to prove to the un-fallen world and even to Satan that there are people who will give up their most prized possession to be faithful, obedient, to prove their love for Him (Jehovah God) and to be an example for future generation, providing a lesson to us of how loyal we must be to Jehovah.

Abraham had the toughest decision anyone can be asked to make, he was between a rock and a hard place, and figuratively speaking, he was asked to choose between the unstoppable force or the immovable object. How can he please Jehovah when to obey his command was to also be in direct contravention of his commend. Abraham found himself in a no win situation but he had to make a decision.

We know the story very well Abraham decided to follow the last command and Jehovah provided him with a way out. We can only speculate but no one knows why God make such a request of Abraham, but Abraham listened to his conscience.

If Abraham came to you and told you that God asked him to sacrifice his child what advise would you given him? Would you discouraged Abraham and tell him that the voice he heard was not the voice of God? That God will never ask him to do something like that. Or would you have say brother Abraham you have got to work out your own salvation with fear and trembling? What would you have done, knowing Abraham’s plan in the name of Jehovah? Would you have accused him of being mad and reported him to the police?

Do you really believe that Abraham heard God’s voice instructing him to sacrifice his son?

Let me asked you some blunt, straightforward and bold question: Who give you the rights to cast judgment on an individual or a group because they do not refer to Jehovah the way you do? Who give you the rights to condemn an individual or a group because they worship God or do not worship God on the Seventh Day Sabbath the way you do? Who gives you the rights to condemn or criticize an individual or group because they refers to his religion differently than you do (Christianity, Islam etc.)?

Do you know if that individual is in total submission to the leading, and working of the Holy Spirit? Do you have unfettered access to the consciences of others? Are you privilege to know how, where and why the Holy Spirit has moved or is moving an individual in a particular way or direction?

Unless you can answer yes to any or all of the above questions then you should just forget about other people and dedicate your life to serve Jehovah and his son Jesus in spirit and in truth while working out your own salvation in fear and trembling. Jehovah's way are not our ways and neither is his thoughs our thoughs.

It is the tricks of the devil to switch our focus from God and doing his will and put it on things that do not concerns us and in the process, set ourself up as the Creator and sustainer: Jehovah, offering judgment and condemnation to others while we glory in our self-righteousness stepting our of our calling trying to fix and change the conviction of others to satisfy our brokeness. We have become speakers of God words and not doers. It is time that we close our mouths and let the people around us see the God we serve in our life.

Israel did not go about telling the nations around them what they do. The other nation knew who Israel served and believed in. their belief and their loyalty to God was demonstrated in and was revealed in their lives daily.