Shhh! It's a Secret!

Inside of us, we have a secret. Something magical. Something wonderful. We have this world made inside of us where we have a beautiful God who desires to be our Lover. He is not seen with our eyes, or heard with our ears, or even touched with our skin, but only felt by spiritual skin, heard with ears of our soul, and eyes of our heart. It's something so personal, so intimate to us that we have trouble talking about it with the closest of people to us in this life (I've wondered lately if maybe that's why telling others about God's love can be so hard?). This Lover is Spirit (John 4:24) and woos us to a spiritual intimacy that goes far deeper, that gets to the core of who we are for the shear purpose of the Beloved enjoying us and us enjoying him, than any other type of intimacy this world has. We derive our identity, our favorite songs, favorite movies, favorite types of sunsets, smells of trees, flowers, times of day and night, and our absolute best (and even worst) fantasies and day dreams all from this secret. And it's also one of the hardest things to talk or communicate to others about in the real world. And it's worth everything. More than all the rubies, jewels, diamonds, gold reserves of all the nations in the world, and all cash currency in every country. It's priceless (Song of Songs 8:7). That's seems to be a general current state of affairs of the romance of God in this world.

Then one day, Jesus will sweep us off our feet and into the clouds. And all of a sudden, everything that we have had as our own personal secret will become real. It will become physical. It will exist. And it will all exist in Jesus and with Jesus. We will see each others' secrets with God (1 Corinthians 13:2) and enjoy them all together. We will no longer strive to be fully alive, nor have to fight against the world to keep the candle inside of us burning in our secret room with God. We will be with Jesus, married to him, delighting in him, and receiving our hearts' every desire (Psalm 37:4).

Of course, it's not really a secret. We need to shout it from the tops of our roofs so that everyone may know and fall in love with Jesus and realize what God has set inside their own hearts that needs to be redeemed so they may live. But it still has the characteristic of something tucked away in our hearts, just for us to know. Like a note being passed under that table during class. It will be embodied in the new name Jesus will give to us that we only will know; the one that two lovers have for each other in their playful embraces (Revelation 2:17).

Enjoy Jesus and worship him in your secret place. Go into your room, shut your door, and be alone with your Beloved (Matthew 6:6). The rest...is up to you :)