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Encountering God On Holy Ground


“Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”
Exodus 3:5 (NIV)
When we come to church each Sunday, we come expecting an encounter with God. However, do you expect an encounter with God on a daily basis too?  What do your daily encounters with God look like?  Are they a quick thirty second prayer to get the day going? Are they mealtime prayers and a quick one before you drift off to sleep?  Or, are they consistent meetings each day in scripture, prayer, and solitude?  Whenever our meetings with God take place and however our meetings with God take place, we’re still meeting with the one and only holy God of the universe!  
When Moses met with God at the burning bush, he was not expecting to meet God and he certainly did not understand how he should have been prepared to be meeting with God too.  God told him to remove his sandals because he was standing on holy ground.  The ground itself was not holy.  It was holy because God was there.  God was present and that made the place Moses was holy.  Wherever we meet God, the place where we are is holy ground!  
If you have not had an encounter with God yet today, I encourage you to do so!  Take a moment right now while you’re reading this and meet with God.  Pray.  Listen.  Read some scripture.  Enjoy some silence in the midst of the hustle and bustle of the busy world we live in.
Notice how Moses’ life was changed after his meeting with God at the burning bush.  Just like Moses, who could not leave an encounter with God without being changed, we too are changed each time we meet with God.  Remember, when we meet with God, no matter where you are, you are meeting him on holy ground.  Expect him to show up and expect your life to be a little different after the next meeting you have with God.
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