022726, Friday

Daily Vitals: 

Weight: 228.3

BP and Pulse: 117/73, 77

Current Glucose Level: 133 @ 0425

Reported Sleep: 5:50

Yesterday's Steps: 3,771 + 40 mins recumbent bike

Journal Entry

Come Follow Me 

Genesis 22: 11 And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.

12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.

"How painfully difficult it must have been for Abraham, in obedience to God’s command, to take his beloved Isaac into the land of Moriah to offer him as a sacrifice. Can we imagine the heaviness of Abraham’s heart as he journeyed to the appointed place? Surely anguish must have racked his body and tortured his mind as he bound Isaac, laid him on the altar, and took the knife to slay him. With unwavering faith and implicit trust in the Lord, he responded to the Lord’s command. How glorious was the pronouncement, and with what wondered welcome did it come: “Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.”

…Although we are not asked to prove our obedience in such a dramatic and heart-wrenching way, obedience is required of us as well."

President Thomas S. Monson, Apostle