As I go through the day memories come flooding in. Some cause pain, some joy, others just confused emotions of both. Some expose wounds, some show where I have been healed. The power of memory to move us is yet beyond understanding. Science can tell you where they are stored in the brain, but, even though they even stimulate that area of the brain, they cannot fully tell where the emotions from them reside. Some are even held in the muscles of the body, because the memory causes a physical reaction.
It is interesting that over the years certain things of the memories fade, yet others remain crystal clear.
This begs a question:
What about memories in our spirit? Is there a place within, that holds the spirit of an action, word or deed?
I am coming to the conclusion that there is. Within every man, women, boy, and girl there is a hidden place. I have taken to calling it "The Secret Place". It is a place where no one but God and the person can access. Demons and satan himself cannot access it. In there are hidden the spiritual substance of every experience with God. It is a place beyond where any spiritual experience with the enemy can ever go. God has made it for Himself alone. The very fact that satanist continue to try to break people down and satan continues to attack Christians no matter what they do, seems to indicate that there is a place deep within the spirit of man that is for God and God alone.
Two months ago I lost my baby girl, at 37 years of age. She was very precious to me and my heart is grieved. Yet, a realization has come from this experience. Anna lives in my heart, no experience good or bad can remove her from there. Should I contract Alzheimer and my conscience level forget who she was, she will always be in my heart. Nothing can remove that!
If I am made in the image of God and He gave me that ability, like Paul, to have people in my heart, then He, has people in His heart. Paul's statement reflects the power of that level of love. "I am persuaded that nothing can separate me from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus"
When we have an meeting with God, there is something that is imparted to our spirit that cannot be taken away. The love of God that comes with that experience lodges in the depth of our spirit, in that secret place, and although I may forget the details, the essence of God's life and power imparted at that time, resides in there.
This gives new meeting to "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty." There is a living out of that place that God wants to work into our being. There is a secret place in the realms of God, but we need to recognize that it is first spiritual. God is first and foremost a spirit, by His own definition.
At this point I just want us to think on these things. Further definition may come in later articles. Selah
3 comments:
Through tears I thank you for writing this. I had come to a place where I hated the memories I had made. They were so painful. But in order to be healed I had to face them head on. Those were dark days, and every so often a memory arises that I thought I had buried deep inside. Its still painful, but I realize now that obviously it is God's time to heal me of them. The biggest issue I think for most, is the forgiving of themselves in regrets. But my Father will give grace when needed. :'(
Thanks for this post Dr. Bill. It has brought a deeper understanding and comfort to me. It's also confirmed many thoughts and challenged me to locate and meditate on those things God has imparted in that secret place.
Yohan
I couldn't agree more. Thank you for articulating this truth so clearly. <3
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