One of the fun things many of us did as children was to create a hiding place; a fort, a treehouse, a tent or just pulling the covers over our head. It was fun to think we had our own private secret place.
This is the second article regarding our Secret Place because I have come to discover just how important it is. My Biblical references include insight from the Psalmist David, the Lord Jesus, and the Apostle John. These are listed for you at the bottom of this article.
I first started thinking about this when I read from The Sermon On The Mount, where Jesus said that if we pray, fast or give we should do it in our “closet” and the Father who sees in secret and is in the secret place will reward us openly. And any time Jesus put a parable, story or statement in triplicate you had better perk your ears up. It was extremely important.
Then I read in the Psalms where David kept talking about God’s secret place; His pavilion, His covering, His shelter, His shadow, His refuge and His hiding place. He kept composing songs (psalms) with this motif. He understood it as a special place where he could go escape and know the peace, protection, power and provision of God like no other place. What was this place?
Before we just repeat what I wrote in the previous article, allow me to share the most recent thought regarding this concept. It has to do with one of my all-time favorite passages – the “abiding” passage in John 15. Here we have an expansion on this most important spiritual concept regarding our secret place. I believe that John’s insight could very well be referring to the exact same place as the secret place of David and the secret place of Jesus. And look, again, how important it is.
“If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you” (John 15:7).
We do not have space to pursue all the important ramifications of this concept but let me summarize –
1. There is an internal spiritual/mental secret place – the “heart.”
2. It is a place where God likes to abide.
3. It is a place from which God likes to protect and provide for His own.
4. It is a place from which come rewards and blessings.
5. It is highly personal and intimate.
6. We can choose to go there or not.
7. It is an active place of interaction – a place of intercession, thanksgiving, request, decision-making and goal-setting.
Although this is a somewhat new and developing concept with me, I have expanded more on a similar topic in my book Logo Dynamics which you can download from our website at www.signalhillfoundation.org in the store section.
References: Matthew 6:4,6,16; Psalm 27:5, 31:20 and 91:1; John 15:7
