What kind of father would slaughter his own son? (Father’s Day)

Though the covenant promise with Father Abraham is instituted through circumcision in Genesis 17, it is only ratified after he is willing to sacrifice the only son through whom this promise can be fulfilled. This event is a paradigm of Christian fatherhood, which flows from the Father himself. Many features of the text converge to instruct us in following both Abraham and God in sacrificing our sons; and in “seeing” God’s provision by faith, and “seeing to it” that their eyes are directed the same way.