Sanctus: holy
Sanctuary: refuge or place of safety
Notice the definition didn’t say building with a ton of chairs, an alter, and screens with words and a huge cross at the front. At least that is what my church looks like.
It’s funny what the Lord is doing through this time.
I need him and I long to be with him everyday, because I can be bored, frustrated and worried really easy.
“As for me and my house we will serve the Lord.” Joshua 24:15
Th, my home, is my sanctuary, my holy ground. Where the Lord is, is where my sanctuary, my place of safety will also be.
Physical isolation is a funny thing, because we somehow like to think of it as some kind of punishment. Like God is judging his people. Or we like to think of it as evil conquering lives and the Devil gaining the upper hand.
I honestly can’t tell you why things are happening because I don’t know.
But what if the Lord put us in physical isolation because HE ALONE wants to delight in us. I have been meditating on this verse, Psalm 18:19 “He led me to a place of safety; he reduced me because he delights in me.”
Jesus used to go to isolation to delight in the presence of his father.
Isolation in the presence of the Lord is our sanctuary. It’s where we can delight in the father.
Everyone talks about how the word is an upside down gospel. Personally I think it’s right side up and we just live upside down until we get it.
Easter just happened and people know:
The empty tomb means hope
His blood means we are clean
He died, so I can live
Most people see an empty tomb and think “who stole it?”, they see blood and think “how gross how dirty!”, they see someone died and wonder “how can we live without them?”.
And now I’m here saying that isolation is actually sanctuary with the spirit. And some of you are thinking “what I’m going crazy in here!?” (Myself included).
It makes sense though. Abba did all that for us to seek intimacy with us. I can’t tell you the Lord brought the Corona virus because I don’t know that, none of us do. But what I know for sure, is that this isolation is a time for us to get after it with the Lord. To eat up the word as if we have never before eaten. To sit at the foot of the throne and bask in the majesty of our savior because he is the most beautiful thing in this universe. To pray and intercede on our knees as if Abbas feet were in front of us and we are washing his feet with our tears and drying them with our hair. To worship so hard that the neighbors call the police for disturbing the peace. To live out of overflow from his spirit, realizing that everyday we get is a privilege and the least we can do is give that day to the Lord.
Isolation with Abba is my sanctuary.
Isolation isn’t leading to depression, or anxiety, or loneliness, or temptation. Those things can go to the hell where they belong in, in Jesus name.
Isolation is my opportunity, my joy, my praise, my quality time, my privilege, and my sanctuary, all with the Lord.
