In the book of Exodus is given an account of the angel that appeared to Moses "in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush" (3:2). The account continues: "The bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. ... Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground."
There is much of significance in this passage. Perhaps Moses realized the imperishable nature of substance, for it appears that he saw fire without destruction. Moses lived so close to God that he could talk with Him. Spiritual ideas come to us as unmistakably as they came to Jesus and to the early Biblical characters; and to the extent that we listen and obey, we too hear and talk with God.
God told Moses that the place whereon he stood was holy ground. Right where one stands in his understanding of God and man is holy ground! The answer to any human problem is always in consciousness, for there and there alone is the kingdom of God. Jesus put it this way (Luke 17:21): "Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you." It would then appear that purging consciousness of all impurities or, in other words, spiritualizing thinking, is the way to have the kingdom of heaven at hand and thus to stand on holy ground.
