We live in a very mobile world.

Everyone is in a hurry to get somewhere.

Throughout Scripture, God often taught people the greatest lessons along the journey.

Today, we continue with Scott Pauli, our study through the great journeys of the Bible.

Our prayer is that you will rediscover the adventure of walking with God.

The longer I walk with Christ, the more I realize again and again, I just keep having to come back to the same places over and over, and the same truths over and over.

And the same commitments over and over.

You see, that's nothing new.

That's exactly what Jacob had to learn.

We've been journeying with jacob in

genesis chapter 28 as he came to bethel and we've learned that bethel was a specific place and a

safe place and a special place and a sacred place and a starting place but finally i want you to see

today it was a sanctifying place.

At the end of Genesis chapter 28, the Bible says that Jacob took his stone pillow,

that uncomfortable thing he'd tried to sleep on in the middle of the night,

and he sets it up as an altar to God.

It's beautiful to see him make this altar and enter into a covenant with Almighty God. It had to be

personal. Had to be his own covenant with God. It wasn't enough that Abraham and Isaac had a covenant with

God. Jacob had to enter into it for himself. And so must you, and so must I. And I'm thinking now of

Matthew Henry's famous words. He said, wherever man has a tent, God should have an altar.

So here he has his sleeping place in the wilderness and lus, but he has an altar here to

meet with God.

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