"Worship"

Genesis 12:8 ~

"And he pitched his tent having Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he builded an alter."

In my English Standard Version it says "..to the place where his tent had been at the beginning...to the place where he had made an alter at first. And there Abram called upon the Lord."

It was this same place that the Lord spoke to him and showed him all the land he would give him and his offspring forever.

Chambers says "Bethel is the symbol of communion with God, Ai 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...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...God's idea is that the three should go together. They were always together in the life of the Lord. He was unhasting and unresting. It is a discipline we cannot get into it all at once."

My tent. Where is my tent set up? Where is my place between the place of worship and communion & the world? Very personal question. Internal actually. I know that the Lord will show me.

Will you ask Him to show you where your tent is set up? The place where you are unhasting and unresting.

The place where the Lord will show us what He desires to give us.

We have to make time to set our hearts and minds on a camping trip so to speak. To carry our tents to the place where we remember Him speaking His truths to us. Where he first drew us. It reminds me of the verse in Revelation 2 that warns that we have forgotten our first love. The prompting for the reader is to remember from where we have fallen, repent and do what we have done before.

It is in remembering, returning and repenting that we find our first love...the very One we were created for.

Thank you Lord that you do not want to be far off from those you love.

I want to worship you in sincere truth and freedom..help me to find the place to set up my tent!!!