While hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park, you would notice stones stacked up into towers called cairns that served as landmarks and memorials. Cairns are similar to the rock formations used in the Bible by Abraham, Moses and Jacob as altars.

Abraham built an altar to acknowledge that God is God, saying through this cairn that he would obey God's will. God sent an angel to stop Abraham from sacrificing his son. Centuries later, God would sacrifice his own Son, Jesus, on the altar, the cairn, if you will, of a cross on a rock hill called Golgotha.

Moses erected an altar to God after the Israelites defeated the army of Amalek. We have moments in our lives after trial or tragedy, when we, like Moses, need to step back and honor in some special way the God who got us through.

The morning after Jacob dreamed of angels ascending and descending a stairway to heaven, he used a stone to make a cairn to announce that this was a dwelling place of God. We need to remember, too, that though we are sinners, God still loves us and has a plan of salvation for us, to take us to heaven to be with him forever.

Honor the Lord, who is the Rock, on your journey through life.
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