Sacred Places

Sacred Places
Lauren Brooks
We talk a lot in class about special or sacred places and I was surprised to see this concept come up in my parents Sunday school class. They were discussing the wandering in the desert and the people’s thoughts of being abandon and really looking for this special place where God was. They felt they had been abandoned and that God was not really with them.
The common myth that the people were playing into was that the sacred is located in one geographical place, when in fact it is something that can be anywhere. The verse from Psalm 139:7-8 states that no matter what you can never be away from good, whether it’s high in the sky or out in the middle of the desert.
7 Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, [a] you are there.
I think back then it was harder for people to grasp this concept than it is for today’s people. So many people thought that God latterly dwelled in one place like the temple or on the mountain and that really should how inaccessible God was to the people. But today, God is seen everywhere and anywhere. He can be with you in your heart or in can be in the desert. God is everywhere.