All of Isaac’s life was a offering to God. He endeavored to offer up every interaction, every breath, every thought. This was evident to all who knew him, but perhaps it’s most evident in the pages of his prayer journals. You can receive a weekly entry from Isaac’s prayer by entering your address here:
Here’s an example of the way Isaac wrote:
“O God, I don’t know when I will leave this world: any day, any hour. What a great goodbye that will be — all my relationships, all my work, all my longings, all my worldly joys. How soon this day will come. May I not store up any faith in a world I will leave so soon. May my only goal, my only faith, my only hope be in you, my Lord. May no hour pass without my offering thanksgiving. O Father, I am yours.”
Behind the title: what is meant by The Offering of Isaac
The day Isaac died, his mother was attending a training for catechists, and on that day–even at the very moments of Isaac’s death–they were studying the sacrifice of Isaac. The instructor asked what was significant about Abraham’s sacrifice, and in the end she said that the attendees left out the two most important things: that Abraham could laugh and that he could . . . Read more …
A father’s insight into his son
Reading Isaac’s journal was a sacred experience. I could only read an entry or two per day, as that was as much as I could handle. This was not just because I grieved the loss of my son, but because of the weight of his words. They are dense words of Christian devotion, and I could only absorb a little at a time. I thought I was a relatively mature Christian until I read Isaac’s words and . . . Read more …
Who is Isaac Scharbach?
Isaac’s journal makes clear that his sole priority was to know Christ and to make him known. Period. People who knew him well understood this, but you might not have fully realized this on first meeting him. You would have seen . . . Read more …