How Did Sarah feel about it?

So, I'm at my Tuesday evening Bible study last night.  We were continuing in No Other Gods by Kelly Minter when we came across an interesting topic of conversation.  In fact it was so interesting it left some of us speechless!  We were discussing the chapter on saying good-bye to our idols and had reached the last day of that week's study.  This particular day focused on Abraham and his son, Isaac, as they went on their three day journey to offer God a sacrifice (to put it ever so lightly!).  Abraham knew that Isaac was going to be offered as the sacrifice even though God had promised Abraham he would be the father of many nations and this was his only son born from he and Sarah in their old age.  (Read their story in Genesis chapters 12 through 23.  You can also learn more about Sarah and Abraham in Beth Moore's study The Patriarchs.) 

Anyway, the discussion was this: Did Sarah know what the plan was or did Abraham keep it from her?  If Sarah did know the plan, as a mother, how do you let your only son walk out the door to that fate?  Then, if you're Isaac what are you feeling when you realize that you're the sacrifice?

Some of us wanted to believe that Sarah was left in the dark so to speak because no woman is going to allow her only child to walk out the door to that kind of fate.  Which I guess is a great reason that I, nor other women in that room, was not chosen by God to be Sarah or even Mary, the mother of Jesus, for that matter!  If so, things would have been all screwed up for sure!  There would be NO WAY I would be sending my child out to be the sacrifice, I would have told my husband that he had lost his ever loving mind!!!!!  " Do you know how long it took us to get this precious boy and you want to do what with him?!  You have got to be kidding!!!!!  NO WAY!!"

And so it goes with us.....everyday that's what we say to God.  "No way can I do that!"  "You have got to be out of your mind if you think I can change my ways now..."  So on and so on.  Think about those questions that were sparked from those events in Genesis between Isaac and Abraham that came up in our discussion.  Fast forward through a couple of lineage lines and hundreds of years and we see the same story.

The part of Abraham will now be played by God, the part of Isaac will now be played by none other than Jesus and the part of Sarah is now Mary.  The difference, a ram caught in a thicket took Isaac's place so that he was spared death.  Jesus had no one or animal to take his place, He was the sacrifice.

Mary knew the fate of the child she would bear.....what if she had said no?  What if God, after writing Jesus' life story changed it because it was to much for him, as a father, to bear?  Jesus knew from the beginning what would transpire, what if he said it was just not convenient for him to do that, it just  wouldn't fit into his schedule?

What would it take for us to change our point of view and say "yes" to God instead of "that's really not what I was thinking, what if we do things my way instead?"  Or instead of saying "that's not convenient for me" we said, "God, I'll schedule a time for you daily."

Thinking back over our discussion, I have to believe that Sarah was a yes woman.  I think that she said yes to Abraham's plan to take Isaac with him as a sacrifice because she trusted God no matter what.  She knew that God had plans for her family that were from a God that loved them with an everlasting love.  For her, that made all the difference.  I believe when "her boys" returned that she hugged them harder than she ever had and loved them more than she ever had and her faith in her God was stronger than it had ever been.   She was the woman of God, the wife and mother that each of us has the chance to be in our own lifetimes and in our own families.