The Lord
appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he
built an altar there to the Lord,
who had appeared to him. From there he
went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on
the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord.
Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev. Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram
went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe… So Abram went up from Egypt
to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had… From the Negev he went from
place to place until he came to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where
his tent had been earlier
and
where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of the Lord.
Good
morning Zebras,
When Abram
left Egypt, he returned to the altars he had built earlier, maybe to encourage
himself that all of this was real; maybe because it was the last time he had clearly
heard God; or maybe to repent for lying about Sari.
The
Bible doesn’t say, it just says Abram returned to where he had first built an
altar.
This
morning, I was reminded again that journaling is my way of building little
altars to God. They are the places I go back to, when I begin to doubt I have
heard God correctly, or when I need some encouragement to keep going.
God’s
journey can be long and it is easy to fall victim to Satan’s oldest trick…”Did
God really say that?’ (Gen 3:1) When
you have it written down it’s much easier to respond with “Yes, He did!”
Be
strong little Zebras, trust God, build altars, and walk in faith.
Love,
Jill
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