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Awesome! What an experience! Festive and holy! And he is so funny! We were so blessed.

What did I learn?

- I learnt what he word Jew means. It means Praiser of the Living God. Am I a Praiser of the Living God – like the Jew? Makes one think.

- The Lord inhabits the praises of Israel, as is written in Psalm 22:3b ‘you are the praise of Israel’. I don’t read ‘your are in the praise of other nations’. Makes one think.

- Ialso learnt that the phrase ‘Here I am’ in the Bible comes from ‘hineini’ which means – you have my full attention, my all. That is what the Lord wants, not casualness. When the Lord called Abraham, Abraham said hineini. Oh boy, then he was tested to make sure he was serious. He had to sacrifice his only son from his wife. Isaac became a picture of the Messiah. They were both special babies from the Lord. They were both sacrifices. They were both willing sacrifices. Isaac, being in the region of 20something, young, strong could easily out manouvre his dad of 100something. He had to get onto the altar himself. Abraham would not have been strong enough to pick him up. He was tied up purely to stop him jerking and falling off when the knife was to kill him. Both Isaac and Abraham. They were both obedient and acted out the meaning of hineini:  Here I am – you have my all. I am yours. How do we answer? Makes one think.