Psalm 27:4-6
4 One thing I have asked from the Lord, that I shall seek:
That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life,
To behold the beauty of the Lord
And to meditate in His temple.
5 For in the day of trouble He will conceal me in His tabernacle;
In the secret place of His tent He will hide me;
He will lift me up on a rock.
6 And now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me,
And I will offer in His tent sacrifices with shouts of joy;
I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the Lord.
Rev. 4:1
After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven, and the first voice which I had heard, like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after these things.”
The Secret Place is a Heavenly place even if it’s in your Den, in your favorite chair. Every time we pray, we are responding to the call to “Come up here.” Simply put, prayer happens in Heaven. Down here, in this fallen world, we are surrounded by spiritual and thus human conflict and darkness, but up there, in The Secret Place, we encounter the beauty of The Lord and His revealed presence is intoxicating. His beauty is His glory, which is His manifest character, qualities, and personality. Later in Psalm 27, Divid speaks of seeking His Face. To behold His beauty is to behold the Face of God. Every time we encounter His presence, in what ever form it takes, we encounter His beauty. Some times it comes in the form of simple discoveries of His ways, or in promises from His word, but whenever He discloses Himself to us we are captivated by that face.
The Secret Place, where we can without distraction, behold His beauty, carries a different realm, and reality than the one we walk in on planet Earth. The more you hang out there, the more you will get comfortable with your new citizenship. David says that in those days of trouble, that we all experience down here, that His head, as a result of spending so much time Beholding The Beauty, was lifted up above his enemies. The consequence of being so Heavenly Minded was that in the midst of battle he walked in shouts of joy and songs of praise, instead fear and despair. David, as king, dealt with many responsibilities and encountered great conflict, but because of his One Thing commitment he lived here in this realm and there in that realm at the same time. In other words, he had “Down here feet, with an up there head,” because he had a “One thing heart.”