THE MOST HOLY PLACE
Today's reading: Ezekiel 16:44-17:24, Hebrews 8:1-9:10, Proverbs 18:1-7

"By these regulations the Holy Spirit revealed that the Most Holy Place was not open to the people as long as the first room and the entire system it represents were still in use." Hebrews 9:8 NLT

There is a term I have fallen in love with, it is 'thin places'.

It has nothing to do with body image, scales or building sites and everything to do with godliness.

A 'thin place' is a common place where there is undeniable connection to the Sacred.

My prayer chair is a 'thin place'

My car has been a 'thin place'.

Our couch has been a 'thin place'.

A 'thin place' is a place where God meets you and there is no mistaking it!

A time when you aren't in the church building but you are having church.

An occurrence in your every day routine that leaves God's fingerprints on your life.

A place where you know, without doubt, that Immanuel lives--is with you.

A moment when the living, breathing, slicing, cutting, healing, mending, impacting Word of God is pulsing in your veins.

To think there was a time in history when this Most Holy Place was reserved only for a specified priest from a specified tribe who could only visit on a specified day of the year.

Not any more! We have been welcomed, because of the blood of Christ, in to this Most Holy Place.

In to His presence. To His side. Beckoned to His feet. To partake of His company. To soak Him in with our very beings.

In the common everyday-ness.

This morning I am praising God for 'thin places'.