Holy places… I think of these as “places that are holy.” In Hebrew the phrase would be translated literally, “places of the holy.” This implies a slightly different meaning. The place itself is not holy. It is a place where the holy is encountered. Without God’s presence, or without the interaction between God and person, there is no holiness inherent in the place. Yet we like to ascribe holiness to places so that we can attempt to re-encounter God in the same places instead of re-encountering Him in our own lives everywhere. The tension is that God can prescribe this kind of re-encounter in order to call us back to Him; but we cannot do it in order to tame Him to our preference. While we follow the ritual that God prescribes, we are also to look for Him in unexpected places. Living within that tension is sometimes challenging.
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