Valley Maker: Abraham & Isaac

I was introduced to the awesome band Valley Maker earlier this year and have loved them since the first song. The album created by Austin Crane, was made for his senior thesis project. The album is basically the book of Genesis sung. Its really great I suggest checking them out at Valley Maker.com.

Today I was thinking about Abraham. I was thinking about how long he waited for Isaac. How much faith he put into the Lord to provide him with a son. Then after years of being patient God delivers on his promise and give Abraham a son. But then after all of that, after God gives Abraham everything he ever wanted He asked Abraham to give it back. And what does Abraham do? He takes his son up to the mountain and prepares to sacrifice the greatest thing that had ever happened to him. He was faithful to God. 

How awesome and encouraging that is to me. To know that God has a plan, he has a promise but it all goes through Him. He promises to give us the desires of our hearts but only if we are willing to give them up for him. We all have "Isaac's" in our lives. Things that we wait for, things that we love, things that we give us hope, peace, identity. But the main question is this, can we be like Abraham, can we put all of are trust in God even if we have no idea why He is doing what He is doing? I hope so. I know its hard to think about, I know its a hard thing to deal with. But I hope we can look at Abraham's faithfulness and see that God is good. I hope we can be like Abraham and be willing to give up what we love most in this world for God. It wont be easy, it will be really hard to do, but be faithful because you serve a faithful God.

Here are the lyrics to the song hope they encourage you. You are loved by a faithful God.

Oh great teacher 
Are you a promise keeper? 
It’s time to go son 
The work must be done 

Oh great father 
Would you call for slaughter? 
We waited so long 
I waited so long 

Oh great provider 
Have we made you tired? 
Am I to blame now? 
Am I to blame somehow? 

Burning torches 
Is this how I worship? 
It’s on the way now 
The lamb is on the way now 

Am I to say how? 

All that you hope 
All that you know 
All that you thought was yours to hold 
Burn it alive 
Learn to set fire 
Learn to fear what you sacrifice 


Oh great servant 
You have served your purpose 
Put your hand down 
Put your hand down 

Oh great promise 
To finish what I started 
Is not too much now 
To spread our son out 

You will not see how 

But I swear by myself 
I swear to your health 
Just as I saw you lay him down 
Ram you come out 
Ram you come out 
Ram would you lay your body down 


Oh my father 
I see the wood and fire 
But where’s your lamb now? 
Where’s our lamb now?