God wants to have a relationship with you that is unlike His relationship with any other being in all creation. In the book of Revelation, John writes that one day we will each receive form God a name that remains a secret between Him and us throughout eternity. C. L. Lewis writes, "What shall we take this secrecy to mean? Surely, that each of the redeemed shall forever know and praise some one aspect of the Divine beauty better than any other creature can. Why else were individuals created, but that God, loving all infinitely, should love each differently?…If all experienced God in the same way and returned Him an identical worship, the song of the Church triumphant would have no symphony, it would be like an orchestra in which all the instruments played the same note."
My grandmother said it better, I think. When anyone asked her which of her six children she loved the most, she said love for your children doesn't work that way. She said it's as if when each child is born, another little room gets added to your heart. And no one else occupies that room. It doesn't have to be bigger or better than any other room. It's just theirs.
"In my Father's house are many rooms," Jesus said. One of them was added on when you became His child. That one is yours, and no one else can ever occupy it. It is secret to you and Him. It's your own private Sistine Chapel. It is furnished by every moment of intimacy and wonder and togetherness shared by you and your Father.
In the whole divine journey, no one else can walk your pathway. In the whole cosmic choir, no one else can sing your song.
-- John Ortberg in God Is Closer Than You Think
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