“Oh, now I have got a little room for myself,” said a young Christian boy to his uncle who was a missionary.
“A little room for what, Jack?”
“One where I can go in and shut the door, and have a little time with the Lord Jesus alone,” he answered with a smile, for he knew what his uncle meant.
The boy spoke as if he had come into some estate, although it was but a very small attic room. But it was enough. He had only known the Lord Jesus as his Saviour for a few months, but he knew the need of being alone with Him away from the rush and turmoil of this sinful world.
I suppose it is like Noah’s Ark—the same door that shuts the busy world out, shuts the Christian in with his God. The boy had found a trysting-place, you see; and he was satisfied. Many had been coming and going before that; and there was always something to distract; but, with this little addition to the domestic accommodation, he could now have the Lord all to himself! And this is what the Lord wants to be the case with all His people—that each one of us may have Him to ourselves.
ML 10/29/1961