52 Week Bible Reading Plan

Traditional (Genesis 19-21)

Chronological (Job 10-15)

Genesis 12:8

And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.

  Worship is giving God the best the He has given you.  Be carful what you do with the best you have. Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift.  Take time to meditate before God and offer the blessing back to Him in a deliberate act of worship.  If you hoard a thing for yourself, it will turn into spiritual dry rot, as the manna did when it was hoarded.  God will never let you hold a spiritual thing for yourself, it has to be given back to Him that He may make it a blessing to others. 

  Bethel is the symbol of communion with God; Hai is the symbol of the world.  Abraham pitched his tent between the two.  The measure of the worth of our public activity for God is the private profound communion we have with Him.  Rush is wrong every time, there is always plenty of time to worship God.  Quiet days with God may be a snare.  We have to pitch our tents where we shall always have quiet times with God, however noisy our times with the world may be.  There are not three stages in spiritual life -- worship, waiting and work.  Some of us go in jumps like spiritual frogs, we jump from worship to waiting, and from waiting to work.  God's idea is that the three should go together.  They were always together in the life of Our Lord.  He was unhasting and un-resting.  It is a discipline, we cannot get into it all at once.