Where is the most secret place you know? My wife said it is her secret closet of prayer. Where is your most secret place? To me it is that space between my ears. The Bible calls it “the Heart.” That place where only I have access. That place I can put things that no one will ever see or ever know unless I choose to make it known. That place in our brains that hold our very consciousness. I don’t know of any place that is more secret than my innermost thoughts. I can make plans for the future there. I can work out problems there, if the problems are simple enough. I can also reason out the puzzles in life that cloud my view.
Many of the problems that invade my secret place are the ones I have introduced, either by chance or on purpose. Some are thoughts that I have taken into my secret place and hoped to solve without anyone helping. As I grow older I can see how foolish this is. So, along the way I invited Jesus to come in and help me with my secret place. It has now become HIS secret place. I don’t have to tell Him my secrets because when I invited Him in he saw how I was. He did not condemn but rather forgave the wrong and made a straight path to follow, with Him in the lead.
There are times when I have to renew my secret place and the upkeep is constant. I read God’s word and mediate on it. I listen to my favorite hymn music or I go to church or bible studies so that I can reinforce my secret place that I have given to Him. Jesus never took my secret place by force he knocked on the door, one day, and I let Him in. He sits on the throne of my secret place because I actively want Him to. If I get too involved in too many things that take away from my fellowship with Him, I begin to feel insecure. My judgment becomes clouded and my way seems unsure. Doubt is not far behind!
He tells us to pray without ceasing and I know that He is not kidding because when our prayer life suffers the attention it deserves we suffer spiritually.
What’s in your secret place?
Just a thought
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