The Secret Place

She invited me to join her. I would climb up into her tiny bed and she would wrap her arm around me, leaf through the onion skin thin pages that in my mind sounded like the rustle of angel's wings and begin to read. "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty." (Psalm 91:1) I would snuggle closer thinking that surly I was dwelling in that secret place because in the secret place of the most High you could hear His voice as I did listening to words of His book.

Sometimes in the night while grandmother would be reading to me I could hear a storm raging outside and the rain would beat against the windows. But I was safe within the walls of my grandmother's house learning the eternal truth that I could abide in the shadow of the Almighty. No matter what would happen in my life I had an invitation to live in the shadow of someone I could trust. The Almighty had promised to be my fortress and my hiding place.

"He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler." (Psalm 91:4) "Mimi, what are you humming?" I smile, I didn't even know I was humming. I bend down and pick up my granddaughter, wrap my arms around her and softly sing, "There is a place of quiet rest near to the heart of God. A place were sin cannot molest near to the heart of God. Oh Jesus, blest redeemer sent from the heart of God. Hold those who wait before you near to the heart of God."

I share with my granddaughter the truth that my grandmother shared with me that we have an invitation to dwell in the secret place of the most High and abide under the shelter of the Almighty. And then I tell her about the one who was sent from the heart of God. I share with her how Jesus wept over Jerusalem and said, "How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not!"(Matthew 23:37) "Oh my precious child, accept the invitation and draw near to His heart!"

Lord Jesus You came from the secret place of the most High with an invitation that I might take the shadow of Your cross for my abiding place. You opened the wing of Your unfailing love to me and so I come. I have found in You my resting place. Let me be covered with the feathers of Your faithfulness.