“And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.”
Early the next morning Abraham gets up, saddles his donkey, takes two servants and his son Isaac, cuts enough wood for the offering, and sets out for the place God told him about. The early morning departure mirrors every other act of immediate obedience in Abraham's narrative. No delay, no recorded protest. The practical preparations — donkey, wood, servants — are the acts of a man who is obeying in the actual world, not in spiritual abstraction. The application: obedience to the hardest commands is always enacted in practical, physical steps. The wood must be cut. Begin with what is at hand.
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