He Built an Altar to God

It's amazing enough to me that God spoke to Abrahm and he went. It didn't seem that it was a great, discussion, and that it may not have been totally strange since it was Abram's ancestors who began worshiping God and who passed down their beliefs and understandings (see 4:26). The story of Noah, the relatively short family tree from Noah to Abram was understood, so when God said, "Go!" Abram went!

Not many of us take that kind of journey. O we may pile into the car, take along many of our things and go away for a while. There are a few of us who do that in their RV, taking their home and many (if not all ) of their possessions with them. Then there are those who load up the trucks and move across the nation (Jack and Pat we miss you!). But Abram had one thing right in all that he accomplished and experienced.

He trusted in God.

Abram went many places in these few chapters of Genesis, wherever the Spirit guided him to go. There was a purpose to this wandering. But it's what he did when he finally settled in the village of Hebron that made all the difference. He built an altar to God.

He wasn't told to or commanded or expected to do such a thing. There was no precedent. It was a simple act of humble adoration and respect for the Divine. Wherever Abram found himself, there he would honor God.

Now we might expect one who was promised to be a blessing to the whole world might want to honor the grantor of the promise. But at the same time we might just discover that if we honor God in the same way, we just might know some of the blessings of Abram?

Maybe in order to experience what we have seen others experience we need to build some altars of our own!

Too often we worship at other's altars, the church's altar, the neighbor's altar (stainless grill, plasma tv, slick new ride, etc.) instead of building something that give honor to the God we say we trust. We build great edifices, towers that reach high into the sky and we say we are proud of what we have accomplished (remember the tower of babble! (mispelling intentional)), but where is our altar to God?

I'm not suggesting that all houses should have an altar built in them, but we should be finding ways to honor God.

Want to know the blessing of God? Worship at an altar just for Him!

Peace ><>
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