This Stone Shall be God's House

Here in the latter part of this chapter we not only find the beginnings of spiritual life in Jacob’s conversion, but we also find the beginnings of his understanding of how he should respond to what God had revealed to him. He responded in acts of worship to God. He was being led by God in his coming to understand what it means to be in the house of God. All of Jacob’s responses to God, the morning after his conversion, were in relation to the stone that he had used for a pillow the night before. This stone was a picture of Jesus Christ and His Church in relation to Jacob himself, and all of Jacob’s spiritual descendants. This stone which Jacob set up as a pillar was God’s house to him. We want to see what Jacob does with this stone; those things that will show us more of what it means to worship and serve God after our conversion. There are 4 actions that Jacob took with this stone that will show us what is the right and appropriate response of worship is, during and after we are converted to Jesus Christ.