Genesis 12:8
“And he pitched his tent having Bethel on the west and Ai on the east: and there he builds an altar.”
What of Today’s Verse…
Worship is giving God the best that He has given you. Be careful what you do with the best you have. Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift. Take time to meditate before God and offer the blessing back to Him in a deliberate act of worship. If you hoard a thing for yourself, it will turn into spiritual dry rot, as the manna did when it was hoarded. God will never let you hold a spiritual thing for yourself; it has to be given back to Him that He may make it a blessing to others.
Bethel is the symbol of communion with God; Ai is the symbol of the world. Abraham pitched his tent between the two. The measure of the worth of our public activity for God is the private profound communion we have with Him. Rush is wrong every time, there is always plenty of time to worship God. Quiet days with God may be a snare. We have to pitch our tents where we shall always have quiet times with God, however noisy our times with the world may be. There are not three stages in spiritual life – worship, waiting and work. Some of us go in jumps like spiritual frogs; we jump from worship to wait, and from waiting to work. God’s idea is that the three should go together. They were always together in the life of Our Lord. He was unhasting and unresting. It is a discipline; we cannot get into it all at once.
Words of Wisdom
Thou compasses’, my path and my lying down.
Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, surely, the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not. And he was afraid, and said, how dreadful this place is! This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.
The eyes of the LORD run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him.
I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for you, LORD, only makes me dwell in safety.
Because you have made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; there shall no evil befall you, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. For he shall give his angels charge over you, to keep you in all thy ways. -When you lie down, you shall not be afraid: yea, you shall lie down, and your sleep shall be sweet. -So, he gives his beloved sleep.
