For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, and in those who are humble and contrite spirit, that I may refresh the mind of the humiliated and the heart of the contrite.
Jes 57.15
three places called the prophet here, where God dwells, So now is: the sky, the temples and people have to endure the suffering. that God dwells in heaven, outside of creation and all that we know as existent, we are used to thinking. that was the image of God, ancient philosophy: a God of senses beyond its creation in the strict and lives beyond her. God is completely inaccessible, since the creation not have access to the outside can have. that God in the sanctuary, so in the most holy temple in Jerusalem, lives, was again the Jews, of course. So far nothing new, hardly be called prophetic. here is a space which, although it is within the creation itself, but occupies within their special status. be entered because he was new at some point in time from the high priest according to the strictest precautions. even this kind of accessibility of philosophy would have been too much.
the third, however, two schools of thought is completely foreign to a God who lives among his creations in the middle. nor to distinguish among those infirmities by any art of the mainstream of society. a God close to his creation, too "bad" elements to it. and yet, all three "homes" here in complete parallelism. at all three locations is the place where God is fully present. only the third any conventional idea of holiness is without
sure that was a hard word to the time that the audience for the imagination of the then severely strained. But how are we with that? we are not inclined to God, to suggest the locations that have a certain spiritual atmosphere in which his name is mentioned explicitly, are dedicated solely to him? we really expect him in the Penn in the town center? his name might know, but would never use? would not let him say of us?
and yet ... just because God says that he wants to stay. and where he lives, we can meet it. Let us take it seriously!