January 13th, The Secret Garden

Dear NEGST team,

As we approach our time in Kenya, I would encourage any of you that want to share your thoughts on the daily meditations, to take the time to post your thoughts to our blog site.

Tina, thanks for posting. This site can be used as a public journal to express what you are experiencing as you process before, during, and after this trip. You can be anonymous or post with your name. Unlike today's meditation our blog is a public reflection of your "inner secret garden". I would encourage each of you to come here often for reflection of what you are experiencing. You may be surprised that many of your teammates are feeling many of the same things.

JANUARY 13 The Secret Garden
And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and
his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
—Genesis 3:8
However we may explain this mysterious "ground" within us, we will not have been long in the Christian way until we begin to experience it. We will find that we have within us a secret garden where no one can enter except ourself and God.... This secret inner chamber is the secret trysting place for Christ and the believing soul; no one among all our dearest friends has the open sesame that will permit him to enter there. If God is shut out, then there can be only everlasting loneliness and numb despair.
Where God is not known in the inner shrine, the individual must try to compensate for his sense of aloneness in whatever way he can. Most persons rush away to the world to find companionship and surround themselves with every kind of diversionary activity. All devices for killing time, every shallow scheme for entertainment, are born out of this inner loneliness. It is a significant and revealing fact that such things have in these last days grown into billion-dollar enterprises! So much will men pay to forget that they are a temple without a God, a garden where no voice is heard in the cool of the day.
Tozer on the Almighty God: A 366-Day Devotional.


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