Thin Places (Part One)
A few years ago Dave and I spent some time in the Rockie Mountains in Colorado. As we drove the winding road through the middle of the mountains, we witnessed some of the most spectacular sights we will remember for a lifetime. We saw hundreds of caribou feeding on the green grasses in the fields, wild flowers I never knew existed and mountain ranges that took our breath away. With the majesty of it all, it was one of those times I felt like I was on top of the world and I just wanted to stand there and clap and give God an applause for creating such beauty.
Mark Batterson in his book, ‘Wild Good Chase‘ says that Celtic Christians referred to these moments as ‘thin places‘ – moments where heaven and earth seem to touch, where the natural and the super-natural worlds collide – creation meets creator and sin meets grace.
This was one of those moments and one of those places for Moses, where God showed up in an ordinary place in a bush on the back side of a desert that became ‘holy ground.’ That seems to be the way the Holy Spirit works. He is predictably unpredictable. He loves to show up in wild places and wild times.
Jewish scholars have concluded that God showed up in a burning bush to show that ‘no place is devoid of God’s presence, not even in a burning bush in the back side of a desert.’ God can show up at any time and at anyplace. You can be at your desk working, sitting in rush-hour traffic or lying on your sofa. He loves to show up in wild places at wild times. God is here, there and everywhere. The ‘holy ground’ wasn’t the Promised Land. It was right where Moses was standing.
Just a thot —–>Don’t wait until you get to the ‘promised land.’ You’ve got to worship along the way.
To be continued———->
