"O my dove, in the clefts of the rock, In the secret places of the cliff, Let me see your face, Let me hear your voice" For your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely."   Song of Solomon 2:14    

"How tenderly He reminds us of what our hiding-place meant to Him, and at what untold cost it was provided for us in the clefts of the Rock of Ages.   What suffering and ignominy were His, as, through the veil, that is to say His flesh, He opened to us a new and living way into the Holiest of all; into these eternal abiding-places in the clefts of the Rock.   When He cried: "It is finished!" was the Rock rent; then were those hiding-places opened up, in which we are invented to hide away from the enemy.   It is in this Rock that was cleft at Calvary, that the bride is hidden away "from the plottings of man."   It is in this hiding-place, that she is kept secretly "from the strife of tongues."   No enemy can reach her in this precious retreat; neither can any enemy get her out of it if by faith she abides in Christ.   Is the enemy tormenting you with fears or forebodings? Hide away in the clefts of the Rock.   Is there something that is disturbing and distressing you, do you feel that you must say or do something in order to make it right and prevent harm and reproach?   Hide away in Jesus; commit your way unto Him and He will bring it to pass.   Are you misunderstood and unjustly accused or maligned? Find a cleft in the Rock, Christ, and hide away; for this Rock was cleft for you and me that our lives might be hid with Christ in God.   People who see us do not know that we are hiding away in the clefts of the Rock.   They see only a heavenly, supernatural calm, which abides through every storm and hurricane; but God knows we are hiding away in the Rock; and the devil knows whence comes this victorious quiet.   If we abide in Christ, we are as much hidden away as God can hide us, who live in these frail tents, are hidden away so that neither man nor devil can find nor touch us.   We must believe that we are in the Rock because God has told us that He has put us there.   If we take this place and there abide, at every step we shall prove that Jehovah is a wall of fire round about us and that He is the glory within.   It is here, that the bride finds security from every foe and from every storm.   Though the storm is fierce, it cannot dismay her.   Though the wind blows and the hurricane sweeps down upon her hiding-place, they cannot come near her.   Though the enemy sends out all his power against her, Jesus is between her and the enemy, He has given her power over all the power of the enemy, and no power of his can overcome her because she is hidden away in the Rock.   Her Beloved keeps her in perfect peace because her mind is stayed on Him, and she has taken refuge in Him."   Cora Harris MacIlravy, Christ and His Bride, (1916).    

May you come into the understanding more and more everyday that belonging to Jesus and being found by Him, you are now hidden in Him -- in the clefts of the ROCK.