by David Wilkerson
God can´t use a man until He gets him on holy ground. A
holyGod must have a holy man on holy ground.
Holy ground is not a physical place, but a spiritual one.
When God commanded Moses to take off his shoes because he was on holy ground,
He was not referring to a two-by-four piece of real estate. He was talking
about a spiritual state.
God called Moses from the burning bush, commanding him:
(Exodus 3:5).
The place was holy! What place? The spiritual condition
he had finally come to. Moses had arrived at a place in his growth where God
could get through to him. He was now at the place of reception, ready to
listen. He was mature and ready to be dealt with by a holy God.
Please don´t think for a moment that Moses alone was on
holy ground. So was all of Israel, even though they were at the end of their
hope. I have never believed God would keep an entire nation under slavery just
to give Moses time to mature into a gracious leader.
Our Lord is no respecter of persons. God, in those 40
trying years, was preparing Israel as well as Moses. By way of loving judgment,
the Lord was driving Israel back to holy ground - back to a hunger for Jehovah.
While Moses was on the mountain being stripped of all his
rights - because that is what was meant by the removal of his shoes - Israel
was in the valley being stripped of all human strength. Moses would have no
rights; Israel, no strength. God could prove Himself strong on their behalf in
no other way. The great "I AM" was being revealed!
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