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A stone under my head…
Today, three in the morning, I woke up with a great feeling to get up and listen to the Lord about my ministry next weekend. On January 14-15 I am to minister with the Word of God in Kutno on New Chance Days. I go there after a year and I will be happy to share what God has produced in my heart. Indeed, during this year I have relived and accepted many passages of the Word again, God has been discovering for me more gems contained in what he says and said over the centuries.
I am going to share today one of the thoughts newly enlightened by the Lord about the stone. What kind of stone is it, someone would ask, in the Bible one kind of stone is special, rejected. It already appears in Gen. 28.11 (stone under the head), then Zach. 4: 7-10 (stone on top), Ps. 118, 22-24 (stone thrown away, walk corner), Matt. 21: 42-44 (stone having the power of judgment), 1Pr 2: 6-8 (chosen, precious, but also a cornerstone and a stone of scandal). Of course, there is one thing everywhere, this stone – the rock is Jesus Christ.
Let’s look at the stone of Jacob that Genesis puts under his head. 28.10-22. It is strange that Jakub took a stone under his head, nobody does that, it causes a terrible headache, the stones are hard, they do not have the properties of a pillow. However, Jacob took it, and in addition he had a meeting with the Lord. He dreamed of a ladder and on it Angels descending and ascending to heaven. God spoke to him and made great promises about his life. When he woke up he was so excited that he cried out the Lord is in this place! How dread this place makes me! He also called this place The House of God – Bethel.
Jakub was a continuator God’s election over Abraham. As we know, God called Abraham, placed him in Canaan in Isaac, he continued his work of calling in Jacob to give rise to a tribe, a clan that would be Israel. Each of them, however, had a summoning meeting with the Lord, to each of them God introduced himself and personally called them to His work. Probably both Abraham and Isaac told Jacob about this, but God himself addressed them individually. Likewise with us, each of us should have a personal calling to life through the Lord. These meetings vary, sometimes in dreams, sometimes in reality, but without this calling to eternal life we are still seekers.
Jacob was on the way to his uncle Laban, his life was to last for the next 20 years, there he would marry Leah and Rachel and have two concubines to serve his wives to beget twelve sons who became heads of the twelve tribes. Now Jacob has no idea of this yet, but God’s plan is slowly being fulfilled. Looking at Jacob’s fate, we notice that him, like no one else before him, must be educated by God so that his nature, wishing to combine and do things in its own way, becomes submissive to God.
But let’s go back to the stone, what he does with it – puts it as a monument in other translations as a pillar, pours it with oil, named the place Bethel, made an oath to God with a condition – if God will be with me – and the stone would become God’s House, in the end it speaks of tithing. So let’s see the way of the stone – stone pillow, monument / pillar – house of God. Amazing allegories. When we reflect on who Christ is for us, who wants to live in our hearts through his death on Golgotha and his resurrection, when it really happens, He becomes a kind of pillow for us, we know that He is the cornerstone of our life and the foundation our faith, but there is something else.
A pillow in the heart gives us the opportunity to rest in the Lord. When even the biggest hurricanes hit us, we can lie down and fall asleep, because the Lord makes us safely live in our interior, which has become the Temple of the Holy Spirit. This peace that reigns in our heart is from the Lord and nothing can destroy it, it is a substitute for heaven in us, this Kingdom of God, which is manifested through us. We can cuddle up to this pillow and calmly wait out the hurricane, as did the persecuted and killed apostles and the multitudes of people before us.
Then we see that this stone became a pillar and then the house of God, these are the stages of our growth in the Lord. Christ in us, the hope of eternal glory, the One who lives in us Ga 2:20, whose life manifests itself more than our fallen flesh, finally becomes the house of God that radiates glory and light. We become the Temple of the living God. Not thanks to our own efforts, but thanks to God’s grace working in us, thanks to Christ who transforms us. We can only spoil something, but He is building this house.
In this way, we become a material for an even larger building, we become, as Peter says, living stones that fit perfectly into God’s building, which is the Church, a part of God’s Kingdom. Called from darkness to light to spread God’s glory. 1 Ptr 2,9-10
Jakub has become an important man even though neither he nor his ancestors were spotless people, God shows that you can come to Him as you are. Jacob becomes Israel, God changes his name and a lineage arises from his sons, and he experiences an incredible blessing at the end of his life. Through the wisdom and the anointing that was on him, one of his sons became the second man in the world, an administrator in Egypt, and Pharaoh, figure 1 of the world at that time, received the blessing from James Genesis. 47: 6-12, so practically Jacob in Joseph was in charge of the world of that time.
What a great story , what an exciting journey of Jacob through life. I encourage you to analyze Jakub’s life, we will see ourselves, contemporary combiners who trust themselves, institutions, money, careers, etc. more than God. Let us think, looking at Jacob’s life, but perhaps it is better to submit to the Lord so that He may build His house in us? Maybe we need to quiet down to hear the Lord? Maybe we need to put a stone under our head to have God’s dreams?
Yours in Mr. Kazik J.
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