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Scripture
“My Father has entrusted everything to me. No one truly knows the Son except the Father, and no one truly knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.” Matthew 11:27

Observation
The most valuable piece of real estate in heaven is not found on the streets of gold or in the walls of jewels but in the few feet that separate the Father from the Son. In that gap there is a vortex of love, an inferno of acceptance as the Father loves his Son and the Son loves his Father. That space is so holy that no angel would dare to step into it.

And yet, and yet, and yet Jesus breaks his embrace of the Father, opens his arms wide and invites the likes of us into the greatest of the hugs of heaven. Like any son on earth who can invite a friend over for a family dinner or to tag along on a father and son camp out, so Jesus, if he chooses, can invite us into the heat, light and joy that arcs between he and the Father.

None of us is worthy to stand there. Yet we are invited when he chooses us.  When Jesus does the choosing we are to boldly walk into that intensely private space and to make ourselves at home with God. Who could imagine it? Who would be presumptuous enough to ask for it? And yet, Jesus invites us in.

Application
Our goal as believers is to live moment by moment in the hot zone between Jesus and his Father. When we live in that space we hear the confidential whisperings of God, we become conduits of power to do greater things than even Jesus did while on earth and we walk with confidence known only by those who are deeply loved.

Prayer
Father, against better judgment, Jesus has invited me into the private space where you and he know each other best. Why do I become indifferent? Why am I distracted? Why do I wander? You have called me on earth to live here as if I were already in heaven. You have asked me to use faith to make invisible things visible and to treat them as realities. I don’t trust my own commitment to stay there. I am so easily distracted. So Lord Jesus, continue to invite me again and again home with your Dad. I want to enjoy every moment of it. Amen.