I have a love/hate affair with social media. It’s so difficult to unravel my heart toward it. There are many benefits to it. Keeping in touch with people who live far away. Learning new things from people who live life differently than I do. But there are also so many drawbacks. The constant oversharing from some. The comparison and jealousy it can cause.
I have recently become much more private. I suppose some people would say that I’ve always been pretty private, but still, I’ve grown more so.
Life feels so sacred to me. My family feels sacred. I am constantly thinking, “I just want to protect this moment. I don’t want to have my phone in this moment, I want to simply live the moment. I don’t need to share this with the world.”
Knowing that heaven sees is enough.
Social media and the like have seemingly robbed some of us of the secret place.
I fight for my secret place. That intimate place where I go to meet with God. Where I go to pour out my heart. Where I go to listen. Where I bring the most intimate praise. Where I am filled.
The secret place is the most sacred place for me.
We witness Jesus going away to the secret place regularly, in scripture. He demonstrated the importance of the pulling away time. It’s such a beautiful time.
No matter what my day looks like, for years now, I’ve woken up at least an hour before my family so that I can stretch into that time. When my secret place is neglected, I’m not the same. When I am steeped in that secretness, everyone in my household benefits. It doesn’t matter how early it is, I am setting my alarm that hour or more before the house wakes up…it’s a habit I refuse to break.
In a world where nothing seems off limits anymore. Even to the point of people purposely recording themselves crying. And children who are forced to grow up with videos of their every sacred moment being shared for likes…it’s more important than ever to talk about this.
How do you tend to the secret place?
I encourage you to consider how you guard your family and even yourself. Do you prioritize the secret and sacred times?
This life is so sacred.
Immediately, Jesus made His disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of Him to Bethsaida, while He dismissed the crowd. After leaving them, He went up on a mountainside to pray. Mark 6:45-46
Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make Him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by Himself. John 6:15
365 Days in the Presence 