“And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.”
When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep. The bare simplicity of the scene — a stone for a pillow, the open ground for a bed — is the situation of the runaway. He has no household, no tent, no servants. The wealth of his father's house is behind him; the wealth of Laban's house is ahead. The application: the night on the bare ground with a stone for a pillow is often where the most significant divine encounters occur. Comfort is not the prerequisite for revelation.
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