So, on June 4, 2015, I decided to obey and create my prayer closet.  I did.  It was a beautiful display of actually doing what Matthew 6:6 says in going to your secret place.  I just always thought that was a figurative thing, until I made my secret place. That is my safe place.  It is my altar.  It is my hiding place.  When I cannot handle life and this world any longer, I go there.  There is no one there… well, One is there.  And that One is waiting for me every day.  Do I go in there on my knees every day?  No, I am afraid not.  Should I go in there on my knees every day?  Absolutely.

The past few weeks I have been struggling with life.  I know what I ought to be doing, but I just don’t…. ever been there?  Finally, when I was tired of trying to do things on my own, I went to the secret place.  My safe place.  My altar, to hide.

When I arrived, the Lord had already gone before me through the hands of my sweet baby girl.  Recently, we had purchased a little figurine that has a little girl praying.  We told her the figurine is hers, but we want to keep it in the secret place so that it stays safe.  As I crawled into my secret place, this is the first thing I saw.  She had strategically placed it between the cross and the nativity.  The back side of the girl figurine was propped up by the nativity and looked as though it was bowing to the cross.  This image brought me to my knees.

No longer was this a picture of my precious daughter.  Now, it was a picture of me.  Nestled beautifully between my Saviour in His birth and my Saviour in His death.

Then it hit me.  That is where we all should be.  Hidden behind the cross.  We should all find ourselves placed strategically behind the cross.  The cross covers us.  The cross restores us.  The cross repairs us.  The cross represents us.  The cross protects us.  The cross forgives us and the cross helps us forgive others.  It is all based upon the cross.  All of our weakness, all of our strength is defined by the cross.  Our identity is in the cross.  Our fulfillment and life’s purpose is in the cross.  The cross is our everything.  Our very life line.  His blood that was shed on that cross covers a multitude of sins- ours and everyone else’s.  

Today, let the cross be enough.  In fact, today, let the cross be all there is.

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.  For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.  For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, GOD DID: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and acting as an offering for sin….  Romans 8:1-3