Scary Clarity

I don't know why I've been on this heaven kick as of late, but a couple weeks ago, we began to discover God's relationship to man through the Genesis account. It raises a couple of interesting questions on the metaphysics of God. How does God's space and our space intersect. If we are to look at the biblical account of heaven (the place where God reigns) we see it intersecting with earth in the OT at a couple of places. The temple, tent of meeting, Mnt Sinai, burning bush. And whenever that seemed to occur there was always the reverence, a respect and awe for that physical space because it was holy. (Moses is to take his sandals off in order to not have anything between him and the holy ground.)

However, as we engage our world we seem to combat some prevailing ideas on the relationship between God and man. Two strong ones today seem to be Pantheism (God is everywhere) and Deism (God is distant "out there"). Some of that unfortunately works it's way into some Christina doctrine as well.

However, if we take the Biblical account seriously we begin to see something a little scary. We become the temple of the Holy Spirit once we receive Jesus, what does that say about the intersection of the sacred space (where God reigns) and earth. Well, as we step into common spaces we bring the presence of God and also that sacred space (that piece of heaven). It is also scary to think of the reverence we should be feeling with our very lives and mission.