Please read Genesis 33.
www.blueletterbible.org/nasb/gen/33/1/s_33001
Meditate on verse 20.
Then he erected there an altar
and called it El-Elohe-Israel.
Wrestling with God changed Jacob; so much so, God changed his name to Israel. And even though he walked with a limp, he was no longer crippled by fear of man because now, like his grandfather, Abraham, he feared God (Genesis 22:12).
Jacob divided his family into 3 companies in Genesis 33, and rather than using them as human shields, he walked in front of them, leading his family to meet Esau.
After a miraculously joyous reunion with his brother, Jacob traveled on to Canaan, to the city of Shechem. The last time Shechem was mentioned in the Bible was when Abraham first arrived in the land of Canaan nearly 200 years earlier (Genesis 12:6- 7). There he built the first altar in the promised land to the LORD.
Shechem was also the first city where Jacob stopped after returning to the land that would someday bear his new name, Israel. In Shechem, like his grandfather, Abraham, Jacob built an altar to God, naming it El-Elohe-Israel; God, the God of Israel. Jacob recognized God was his God.
What about you? Is there a time and a place where you spiritually built an altar, a place of sacrifice, dying to yourself and acknowledging God is your God? If not, let today be your “Shechem,” thanking God for the privilege of living with Him.
Pray Genesis 33:20 over yourself and your family for whom you stand guard as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7). Insert your family’s name in the blanks.
“LORD, You are El-Elohe- __________.
You are God, the God of ___________,
the God of me and my family.
Because of Your name, Jesus~”
The WATCHMAN on the WALL – Dr. Ron and Marsha Harvell
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