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A fugitive falls asleep on a rock and wakes up inside a sanctuary: surely the LORD is in this place, and I was not aware of it.
You will probably not see a stairway today, but the sentence still applies to break rooms, waiting rooms, and kitchen tables. God has a habit of being where He was not expected. Read with your eyes open.
Jacob's Bethel discovery is one of the Bible's most repeatable lines: surely the LORD is in this place, and I was not aware of it. He said it in a nowhere spot with a rock for a pillow, as a man whose own choices had put him on the run. Presence, it turns out, does not require a worthy location or a worthy Jacob.
The bleeding woman made the same discovery from inside a crowd: God was close enough to touch. So did Leah, unloved and naming a son Praise anyway. Wherever this day parks you, run the Bethel check. The place you are standing may already be a doorway, and the LORD may already be in it.