Whenever we see God’s fingerprints in our lives, we should party hard.

We all too often forget to celebrate when God has worked in our lives. We’ll thank Him for how he’s worked in our lives, but we don’t truly rejoice.

I know I often haven’t.

⁶Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. ⁷The LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

⁸From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD.

Genesis 12:6-8

God appeared to Abram with a promise, and he built an ALTAR in remembrance.

A what?

An altar.

Not once, but twice.

And then he worships and witnesses to those around him.

When was the last time you ran to tell all your friends when God worked in your life? When did you tell strangers?

I know I’ve never built an altar, that’s for sure.

What I do know, is that I’ve realized the importance of celebrating God’s work in my life. Both through worship to Him, and in telling others.

I have also realized that it’s important to to look back at the times when God did wonders in my life so that I remember how He changed my life.

Genesis 13 picks up again:

¹So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him. ²Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold.

³From the Negev he went from place to place until he came to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had been earlier ⁴and where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of the LORD.

Abram went to Egypt, returned to the altar he had built before and remembered.

I think few things help our Faith like looking back at his ever-changing work in us. I know it blows me away each and every time.

How do you remember God’s work in your life? Do you tell others about the God-things that happen?

Do you build altars and party hard?