Day 7 of Bible in 365

Sacrifice :: That has got to be one of the hardest things for Christians to do... (Me included)  Reading these chapters (Genesis 20-23) the main event was Abraham taking his son Isaac to the altar to sacrifice him to God.  I feel like I can sacrifice a whole lot in life, but sacrificing my daughter is outside my realm of reality.  Before Abraham left his servants to go up the mountain he told them to stay there, that THEY were going up and that THEY would be back.  So that leads me to believe he either new God would come rescue or stop him from the sacrifice, or that God would resurrect Isaac after Abraham sacrificed him OR my husband said he probably just said that to them so they wouldn't get worried that he was about to go kill his son!  Either way - I still can not fathom it!  Just brings me back to what I was saying yesterday... Oh what Faith Abraham had!  Sometimes I think God walks me through things in life so my faith would grow and be stronger... He is giving me the opportunity to be a child of God who TRULY believes even with the circumstances show otherwise. 
So something else that happened in these chapters is Abraham lied again... yesterday in the read Abraham went somewhere and lied that Sarah was not his wife but his sister, so the king took Sarah as HIS wife, then the Lord told him otherwise and they feared Abraham and kicked them both out.  So Abraham did it again....It says he did this so they would spare HIS life for her sake.  So confusing... I mean, this is the man that has the faith to believe in God to save his one and only son.... to trust God with every word that he speaks... but when it comes down to his own life, he fears that his wife's beauty will cause the king to kill him and take her for himself.  So does he love himself that much to protect his life over and over with lies?  I don't know... but God never seems very upset by it, he always lets the truth be known, and life moves on.  God is so gracious, its like a kind rebuke from God ... no no your doing it wrong lets do it this way.  In a way it gives me hope - hope for those of us that are not so faithful as Abraham!  That God would be gracious enough to lightly redirect us in the right direction!  Cause God knows I need a lot of that!