Have you ever noticed that most of the God-encounters described in the scriptures happened to people who were going about their everyday lives? Jacob and Samuel were sleeping. Gideon was threshing grain. Balaam and Paul were traveling. And then there was Moses, just minding his business, tending his father-in-law’s flocks in the middle of nowhere, when suddenly he found himself on holy ground.
Has it ever occurred to you that you might be a candidate — that somehow, somewhere, when you least expect it, someone might come up to you and say, “Take off your shoes, you are standing on holy ground!”
Why not? What is keeping you back? None of these people were “prayed up” or seeking an encounter, which is not to say that personal holiness doesn’t increase the possibility of meeting with God. However in our world we tend to compartmentalize things so much. The sacred is not just in the sanctuary, it is all around you! As a child of the holy God, you are a carrier — a bearer of the sacred, a herald of the holy. In a sense, everywhere you are is holy ground. Like Jacob you can discover this truth and say, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and was not aware of it . . . How awesome is this place! This is none other than the gate of heaven.”
Yes, you are standing on holy ground! Turn your heart in God’s direction and attend to Him. Lift up your hands, lift up your heart . . . take off your shoes?
by Sheri Cook, Director of Special Ministries
