I was on holidays last week in Uluru. It was incredible to see another part of God’s creation - everything is majestically beautiful.
My friend and I had an ethical dilemma while we were there watching the sunrise – do we climb the rock? Yesterday I was reading this article about how they are planning on closing the climb for good.
As a follower of Jesus I don’t believer in any spiritual significance of the rock. I believe God owns it and he put it there – so it doesn’t belong to any people first and foremost.
But I decided not to climb. It just didn’t sit right to blatantly disrespect those people. I felt to climb would say I didn’t love them. I also thought that it’s a good chance to witness to others a different reason not to climb.
The argument that it’s like people crawling over Jesus tomb (that my non-Christian friend put to me this morning) isn’t right. . The time for special spiritual places is over as we have the Spirit of Christ in us. But the age is the Spirit is about loving others. What would you have done? (I’d be interested to hear!)
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