Holy Ground Exodus 3:5 Do not come any closer, God said. Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground. Moses had an encounter with the Lord during the famous story of the burning bush. Moses saw the bush burning on the mountain top but the bush was never consumed by the fire; it simply kept burning.So he ventured up to the mountain top for an investigation. He saw the burning bush and the Lord spoke to him from within the fire. The Lord told Moses to take off his sandals because he was standing on holy ground. It is curious as to why the Lord would call that particular patch of soil and rock, holy ground. If anything should have been considered holy, it would have been the bush, since it was so unique. But the soil, it was just dirt. Why was it holy? The Lord wanted Moses to understand that His presence was in that place. He wanted Moses to understand that the Lords presence was holy. Holy is defined as being set apart. The Lords presence is set apart; it is different from us or anyone else who might be considered important. It was Moses responsibility to respect that presence, to take off his shoes out of reverence. Taking off your shoes is a sign of submission in many cultures. If I take your shoes, it represents that you cannot go anywhere; you are my guest. Taking off your shoes shoes a sign of respect. When you enter into a time of prayer, you are entering the presence of the One True God; that is a holy place. The presence of the Lord is holy and we need to remember this. Take off the shoes and enter His Presence with humbleness. Take off the things that bind during our time with the Lord then maybe our experience on holy ground would be different than the thousands of other times we have gone into prayer and left feeling unchanged because we were weighted down with our shoes! Dont take my word for it; look it up: Exodus 3:2-6
Posted on: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 02:18:22 +0000
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