Altars do not need to be elaborate things. Sacred spaces are being created by many people in ordinary places around their homes such as closets, bedrooms, and quiet places on patios or in backyards. They are places prepared especially for prayer and meditation - places that often serve as soul-quieting antidotes to modern stress. I remember Dick Eastman at his Change the World School of Prayer encouraging us to set up a devotional spot in or around our home called The Gap. It was based on Ezekiel 22:30 “"I looked for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found none.” He urged us to pursue intercessory prayer on behalf of our nation and the nations of the world. I did that in our home at the time and kept it for a number of years. It was a surprising experience of great worth. But really, as Pastor Steve mentioned, God’s people set up altars in many places and for varied reasons. One can use picnic tables at State Parks, desolate areas in woods or wherever you find an environment that is conducive to embracing God. An altar is a place that you make sacred space because of the way you use it to carry on two-way communication with God Almighty. It is a space where He has done some special work on your heart or in your head in the past and you might return from time to time to ask God to do it again. It is a place to commune with our Maker remembering that it is in Him we live and move and have our being.
-David Corts
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