He said, "Do not stretch out your hand against the lad, and do nothing to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me."OK, this is one of those statements from God that gets some people very confused. Here you're dealing with the all-powerful, all-knowing, all-everything God, but He said "now I know"? What does that mean? That He didn't know before? But that would mean He's not all-knowing, but He has to be, so He had to have known, but He didn't...
Yes, this is one of those things that can make your head hurt. One of my former teachers deals with this much like when Abraham bargains with God about saving Sodom. God knows he's going to "change his mind" and go lower, but Abraham has a lesson to learn in the bargaining. Here it's almost the opposite; Abraham doesn't try to bargain, and therefore learns from the experience. Also, this is proof that he has changed, and now trusts God completely to provide. In the previous chapter we saw the start of that change, and here is the completion of it.
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