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For Children · Lesson 12 · B. Abraham and His Family — Genesis 12–36

God Will Provide a Lamb

Read together in your Bible: Genesis 22 (King James Version)

Memory Verse — Hide It in Your Heart
“And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.”
Genesis 22:8 · KJV

Say it together morning and night until you know it by heart — these are the very words of God.

The Story

Isaac grew up, and Abraham loved his promised son very much. Then one day God gave Abraham the hardest test of his whole life. God told him to take Isaac, his only son, whom he loved, and go to the land of Moriah, to a mountain God would show him, and offer Isaac there as a burnt offering.

Abraham did not argue. Early in the morning he got up, saddled his donkey, cut the wood for the offering, and set out with Isaac and two young men. On the third day of the journey, Abraham saw the mountain in the distance. He told the young men to wait with the donkey, and he said something that shows how much he trusted God: "I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you". Abraham believed that somehow, both of them would come back down that mountain.

Abraham laid the wood on Isaac's shoulders, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As they walked up together, Isaac looked at everything they had brought and asked a question that must have touched his father's heart: "Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?" Abraham answered with the words of our memory verse: God Himself would provide a lamb.

At the top, Abraham built an altar and laid the wood in order. He bound Isaac and laid him on the altar. Then Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife. But at that very moment, the angel of the LORD called to him out of heaven, calling his name twice — Abraham, Abraham! And the angel said, "Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him". God had seen Abraham's complete trust. Isaac would not be harmed.

Then Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked — and there, behind him, was a ram caught in a thicket by its horns! God had provided, just as Abraham said He would. Abraham offered the ram in Isaac's place, and he called the name of that place Jehovahjireh, which tells us the LORD will provide. Then God's angel spoke again and repeated all the great promises: Abraham's seed would be multiplied, and in his seed all the nations of the earth would be blessed.

The Big Truth

Abraham trusted God completely, and God provided — just as He later provided His own Son for us.

What We Learn

  1. Abraham trusted God with the thing he loved most, and God saw his trust and provided a ram in Isaac's place.
  2. God always provides what He promises — Abraham could say it before he could see it.
  3. Long after Abraham, God provided His own Son, the Lord Jesus, as the Lamb who takes away our sins.

Talk About It

  1. What hard thing did God ask Abraham to do? What did Abraham say to Isaac on the mountain?
  2. How did God provide at just the right moment? What name did Abraham give that place?
  3. What is something precious to you? How can you trust God with it, like Abraham did?

Fun to Do

Make a Mountain and Ram Picture! Draw a big mountain, a small altar of stones at the top, and a ram with curly horns standing in a bush beside it. Write the memory verse under the mountain with a grown-up's help. Every time you see the ram in your picture, remember: God will provide.

Let’s Pray

Dear God, help me to trust You like Abraham did, with everything I have. Thank You for providing Your own Son for me. Amen.

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