Genesis 28:18-22 ESV
So early in the morning Jacob took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up for a pillar and poured oil on the top of it. He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first. Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear, so that I come again to my father's house in peace, then the Lord shall be my God, and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God's house. And of all that you give me I will give a full tenth to you.”
Jacob wakes from a dream in which God speaks with him confirming the covenant of his fathers. Jacob then takes the stone used under his head and uses it as a pillar in God’s house. It serves as a kind of cornerstone of his relationship with God.
Jacob arrives in this place of revelation and resolve as he travels. He finds the house of God as he makes his way through the landscape. This is the case today for those in relationship with Christ. We learn and grow on our way home into the image of God. We are becoming who we are as the body of Christ.
He is with us even as He awaits at the end.
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