The Heart's Cry: Psalm 132

Psalm 132

I feel like I've said it before, but so has the Psalmists, God is not in need of "A PLACE" because God can be found in all places. I don't think that it is coincidence that Jesus uses the term footstool when talking about Earth. Here the Psalmist speaks of footstool as a solitary place on Earth, whereas Jesus considers the whole of Earth to the footstool. If you need a place to worship God, this is as good a place as any. If you need a place to pray to God, this is as good a place as any. If you need a place to find God, look around, this is as good a place as any.

I think that this whole preoccupation with finding God a place begins with the concept that God is our God. The Israelites believed themselves to be a capital C Chosen people, and so they needed to know that God dwelt among them. Because of the incarnation of Jesus and the subsequent rise of Christianity as a separate religion we have decided that we are now the capital C Chosen people. The problem with both them and us is that we have never been capital C, but rather lowercase c chosen people. We are chosen by God to show others the way to God. We are a city on the hill that shines light into darkness. We are the holy ones, set apart so that people may learn that there is a better way. It is way of love and mercy and grace and forgiveness and hospitality and charity and kindness and joy and it is that way which we are supposed to show others.

God did not choose us so that all others may burn in hell for eternity. God did not choose us so we could throw it in the face of non-believers. God did not choose us so that we could tell other how to live their lives, or more importantly how they are living their lives in sin. We are to be the positive example of another way of life. And in that positive example lies the truth that God is not only found in a Christian church, not only found in a Jewish temple, not only found in a Islamic Mosque, but rather that God can be found anywhere anyone is truly looking for God.

+ Where have you found God?

+ How have you been guilty of trying to own God?