# When I Lay My Isaac Down

## Metadata
- Author: [[Carol J. Kent]]
- Full Title: When I Lay My Isaac Down
- Category: #books
## Highlights
- Our "Isaacs" are the heart sacrifices we make when we choose to relinquish control and honor God with our choices even when all seems lost. We have to decide if we will let go of our control overa person, situation, or event, or if we will hang on for dear life and refuse to relinquish something we cherish. ([Location 62](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B001C6N4C2&location=62))
- When God seems the most absent, He is the most present. He is in the middle of your circumstances whether or not you have recognized Him. ([Location 75](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B001C6N4C2&location=75))
- My mind flashed to the invisible world, and I could envision Satan laughing with a cadre of demons. They were having fun, and in between cackles several of them looked in my direction as the leader pointed at me and said, "Let's wipe her out spiritually and emotionally. Let's put a guilt trip on that mother that will make her give up on God. We'll put such financial and personal stress in the lives of the Kents that they'll give up on their faith." I could hear the creatures jeering in the background. And I sobbed. ([Location 190](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B001C6N4C2&location=190))
- The image of the ladder between earth and heaven reminds us that there is activity going on in the unseen world. Have the demons been fighting to destroy our family? Have they been in strategy meetings in the invisible world, figuring out how to take us out - starting with our son, assuming the "trickle-down impact" will tempt us to quit serving Jesus? ([Location 209](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B001C6N4C2&location=209))
- The Enemy wants us to waste our time generating anger toward others, ruminating over personal betrayals and over injustices due to sickness, accidents, and evil. ([Location 239](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B001C6N4C2&location=239))
- He wants to destroy our ability to function productively and to disengage us from inspiring others to be Christ-followers. He wants us to give up and die or to control everything around us in such a tight-fisted manner that we're tied up in ridiculous knots. ([Location 239](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B001C6N4C2&location=239))
- We can hug our hurts and make a shrine out of our sorrows or we can offer them to God as a sacrifice of praise. The choice is ours.-RICHARD EXLEY ([Location 292](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B001C6N4C2&location=292))