The secret place of the bride is the womb of the queen

    In Revelation chapter 21 we're given this image of the Bride and the Groom coming together, which echoes a similar image in Matthew and other chapters in the new testament that depicts the Bride being brought up and joined with her Husband in heaven. The King of Kings uses this image in such a way that He is painting a picture of a heavenly marriage and directly explaining how important marriage is to Him. Yet, indirectly, we can see that Him being the King has the true Queen of Heaven in His heart when He is being married to her. So in this season of preparing for our Lord to return to us, we must be looking to the identity of Bride in the same fashion as Queen. 

    To me, a preparation implies a location where someone or something is allowed to grow and depending on the thing, go through the bacterial, physiological, and chemical processes that science has learned and gleaned information about by observation of things such as wombs and uteri. There is something deeply spiritual about a womb of a mother, and in several scriptures, Jesus is painting a heavenly picture of Him giving birth to the sanctification of the bride by seeing her in the womb. Just as Adam was prepared in the womb of the earth, and in effect, all of us were before the frame of the earth, conceived in the mind of God, so does Jesus place us in the womb of the queen to prepare us to be the queen of heaven. 

    However, unlike childbirth and conception, we must willingly come to the place of preparation, just as we might come willingly to any prayer closet. We must willingly be stripped of our dirty rags and take on the clean white linen fit for the bride of Christ. It goes to say that to be in the secret place it is a place of silence and of humility before the majesty of the Christ. 

    This is where I've been lead to as of late, and continue to search out space for. In my daily life, there is a time of worship through the medium of music almost every day, and during this time I am reminded to "come into the womb, the secret place." It is not a dark place, but a place of being hidden in the Lord, and as most wombs are, a place of preparation and receiving. Unlike most wombs, my food comes in the form of revelation and, to be honest, lack of food. I find often that I am more fed when I'm not necessarily eating food on a set schedule. This is my womb. This is the process I'm being taken through. 

    In that same sense though, there are many wombs that we have access to, and are given over to. Yet the idea is that we give birth to something. This is my womb, and I pray that you would soon find yours.