MinistryMessages
January 31, 2020
This entry is part [part not set] of 2576 in the series Daily Words for the Christian Life
“Now Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem, which is in
the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan-aram, and
camped before the city. … Then he erected there an altar”
– Genesis 33:18, 20
The tent showed that he knew he was a sojourner in the world and didn’t belong to it. The altar showed that his roots were in God, not in the earth. This gave him stability.
Adapted from A Sketch of Genesis, by Titus Chu, page 162
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