The Encounter

I was a little girl around the age of 6 or 7 and I had long brown hair and was dressed in my night gown. I turned the knob of the bedroom door and I had all the feelings that told me I was not supposed to be in this room. I continued to push open the door and peeked my head inside the room. There it was, the most beautiful bedroom I have ever seen in my life. The picture perfect bedroom! A four poster bed elegantly covered in a fluffy white cotton spread with lots of pillows and over the top and draping down all four posts was a beautiful white sheer cloth, loosely pulled back and tied to the posts. The beautiful dark wood walls reflected the flickering light of candles lit around the room. A comfy and inviting chair sat in the corner, next to the fire that was going in the fireplace. My heart was pulled and longed to see more. Then I heard the voice…

The voice said to me gently, ‘you have full access and full permission to enter this room. There is nothing off limits in this room to you. You can touch anything you want, jump on the bed, open the curtains, turn the lights on and off, have a pillow fight, try on all the clothes and shoes, and all the jewelry you want. You can have it all. You will eventually grow into most of the clothes and shoes and you will learn how to put the appropriate accessories with each outfit. I will teach you ‘how to dress’ for every occasion.’

I stepped into the room. It seemed so quiet, so beautiful, too beautiful to mess up. My eyes spotted this beautiful intricately detailed gold treasure box sitting on a table just begging me to open it. There seemed to be a glow of light coming from within the box. I walked over to it and gently opened it. My eyes fell upon the most beautiful diamond crown I had ever seen before, sitting on stunning red velvet. It sparkled so brightly that I figured that was the light I saw coming from within the box before I had opened it. Then I heard the voice again…

‘That is for you and there is a very special time when I will place that crown on your head. You don’t know when that time is, but I do.’ 

Much to my dismay, my encounter ended at that point!

Why do I tell you about my personal experience this day? I tell you because I believe it was an invitation from God to come into the secret room, the same room that I was invited into when I was a young girl. It was an opportunity for me to step into the secret place with God years ago and let Him romance me and show me how much He loved me. Little did I know at such a young age, that my fear is what would keep me from stepping into that room. I somehow thought that it was a room I didn’t have permission to be in.

Life in general and circumstances tend to keep us from entering the secret room with the Lover of our souls. Our fears, shame, and our inadequacies along with whatever else we can throw in there is what keeps us from ‘knowing’ who we are and who ‘He’ is! I missed an opportunity so long ago!

What would have been different if I had just accepted the invitation? Would life had been easier? Would all the negative things that happened in my life, would they still have happened? I can’t really answer these questions, but I think I have a pretty good idea! Had I stepped into that room, I would have learned to know what to do with my fears, my frustrations, my anger, my shortcomings, my sin, my comparisons, my self-pity, my self-righteousness, and my shame instead of burying them so deeply inside that I would someday deny that I had any of those issues. Haha!

My secret room was all about keeping these hidden from view. Be the good girl, be the pure girl, be the one everyone can depend on, be the responsible one, be the humble one etc. All the crazy lies that I believed had formed my belief system and had hidden or disguised the authentic me! The authentic one that was meant to be in the secret chamber with our Lord. The same person that was created to be so absolutely in love with The One who formed me. Wow, what valuable time I have missed being in the secret room, the secret place, the secret lovers chambers with My Lord.

My Pastor frequently says, “I can’t afford to have a thought in my head that is not in His”. God is constantly thinking about ME! He speaks continually to the authentic person that He created. My filters are in need of changing, my ears are in need of a good cleaning and the cobwebs of lies that are still hanging in my head is in need of a good sweeping.

The Invitation

How about you? When was the last time you were in His chambers? Maybe you never have been in that place before. Now is your opportunity! 🙂

Go ahead, turn the knob and open the door! There is so much awaiting you in the secret place. You have full permission and full access to all that is available in the secret place with God! There are no limits when you are with Him! There are no restrictions on how much love He can shower upon you. There is no limit of time you can spend with Him.

His banner over me is love! I am the apple of His eye! He loves me no matter what I’ve done! His heart is always open to me! His arms are always open to me! I can’t run from His love…it constantly pursues me! His love covers a multitude of sins! His love is perfect and casts out all my fears! His love will never fail! His love is the most real and genuine expression of God Himself!

Your authenticity is revealed in intimacy!

How can you or I possibly turn that invitation away?