GROUND

There are two kinds of ground in this world, holy and unholy ground. The former is found wherever God’s presence abides. We see this most clearly when Moses, seeing the burning bush approached to determine why it was not consumed only to be met by the voice of the Lord.

Meditation
Exodus 3:5—“Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”

When we walk with God, our steps are sure and we can say in confidence with King David, “He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; He set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand” (Psalm 40:2). Where God IS the Ground Maker humbles both believer and unbeliever.

“Saul got up from the ground, but when he opened his eyes he could see nothing. So they led him by the hand into Damascus” (Acts 9:8). It was holy ground on which that persecutor Saul was blinded and holy ground where his sight returned (9:17,18).

I’ve found a place not far from my house that is ideal for prayer walking. It is an asphalt path behind two public schools that encompasses their sports fields. When we walk that circular path in prayer we often experience God’s encouragement. We feel His presence on refreshingly, righteous ground.
The world defines walking in circles normally as a euphemism for confusion, a state of lostness or ineptitude. Those who walk apart from God in their own strength pace unholy, sinking sand. It opens and consumes them as happened to Dathan, Korah and his followers.

But if the LORD brings about something totally new, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them, with everything that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the grave, then you will know that these men have treated the LORD with contempt." As soon as he finished saying all this, the ground under them split apart and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, with their households and all Korah's men and all their possessions. They went down alive into the grave, with everything they owned; the earth closed over them, and they perished and were gone from the community. Numbers 16:30-33

The question we must ask ourselves is this, “What kind of ground am I walking upon? If we walk with God in faith and obedience, we are on His holy ground and we find His favor!
“You broaden the path beneath me, so that my ankles do not turn.” —2 Samuel 22:37
“You have made known to me the path of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence, with eternal pleasures at Your right hand.”—Psa. 16:11
“He restores my soul. He guides me in paths of righteousness for His name's sake.”—Psa. 23:3
“In the way of righteousness there is life; along that path is immortality.” —Proverbs 12:28
“The path of the righteous is level; O upright One, You make the way of the righteous smooth.”—Isaiah 26:7

Conversely, those “who leave the straight paths to walk in dark ways,” (Pro. 2:13) will reap the pain that comes on unholy soil. “In the paths of the wicked lie thorns and snares, but he who guards his soul stays far from them”—Pro.22:5. Are you grounded in God’s holiness or grounded in sin? One leads to glory the other to worms.

Inspiration
We are responsible for the kind of ground we are. No man on earth has any right to be a high road; every man has the chance of allowing the plow to run through his life.—Oswald Chambers in The Servant as His Lord