God is in the mundane

Genesis 28:10,11,
10 Then Jacob departed from Beersheba and went toward Haran. 11 He came to a certain place and spent the night there, because the sun had set; and he took one of the stones of the place and put it under his head, and lay down in that place…. 16 Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, "Surely the LORD is in this place, and I did not know it." 17 He was afraid and said, "How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven."

Verse 11 says that Jacob came to a “certain” place. In other words he came to no place in particular, a common place. He wasn’t at his destination, it just happened to be some random place that he decided to stop and sleep. In the night, however, he had a vision from God. When he awoke he said (my paraphrase), “Wow! I didn’t even know God was here. I thought it was just some random place. I wasn’t aware that God was here in this ‘certain’ place and it turns out that this is the very gate to heaven.” This struck me because I think our days are similar. Most days are simply common, ordinary days. I wonder how often our mundane days and ordinary places could be transformed into the very gate of heaven. I am glad that God will at times show up in the “no certain place” and transform it into the “very gate of heaven.”