DAILY?READINGS: Deut. 25 to 26:15; Jonah 3-4; Luke 13:1-21
So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands…Jacob hid them…by Shechem. Genesis 35:4 (NKJV)
God told Jacob to move on—enough time had been wasted conforming to his surroundings. God stirs us up too, revealing when we are too attached and too comfortable in this world. Once Jacob set his house in order they moved to Bethel (God’s House) where fellowship with God and the family’s testimony were restored. Does our relationship with the Lord lack power and effectiveness? Are things crowding Him out? Is our family too endeared to worldly things? Perhaps it’s time to move forward—or back—to where our focus is on the Lord. —Deborah Manera
Back to Bethel I must go, back where the rivers of sweet water flow,
Back to the true life my soul longs to know, Bethel is calling and I must go.
—B. B. McKinney