In grace Abram was called by God and in faith he went, meeting God in Bethel and building an altar there. After, when his faith was weak, he went here and there, but in the end he returns to Bethel — the house of God. The place where God made himself known to Abram and Jacob his seed. When he and Jacob got away, God was ever faithful to His calling, watching over them in their wanderings, teaching them lessons about themselves. But He never changed the calling and the lofty character of it. They, humbled, were called back to Himself where He revealed Himself to them. Later, in that place of blessing, Satan would seek to replace God with idols. In turn, while patient, the God of grace is also the God of judgment and in time what Satan had introduced at Bethel God fully judged and removed. We, too, in grace have been called by the God of Bethel. We are called to be His children, part of His household and the bride of His Son. He reveals Himself, His Son and His calling to us. If we walk unworthy of our calling, He will remain faithful to us in our wanderings, and He in love will humble us and recall us. If we allow idols of the world and its ways into our lives at Bethel, He will judge them and work in our lives to make us judge and remove them.