“If you will not hear, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and my eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the Lord’s flock is carried away captive” (Jeremiah 13:17).

Secret (Def): (Heb): Mictar from Cathar): A concealer, covert, hidden

The Prophet Jeremiah, commonly known as the weeping prophet, was a true intercessor for his people, Israel. He continually called for them to turn to God and secretly wept sore over them in deep intercessions and cries to the Lord.

His Book of Lamentations fully expresses his grieving and prayers for the nation gone into captivity in Babylon. The Secret Soul is like that. One who continually offers up prayers “with strong crying and tears unto Him who is able to save from death” (Hebrews 5:7).

The Secret Soul while active in public is also a solitary figure who in the quiet place of the Spirit is continually active in prayer and intercessions “with groanings that cannot be uttered” (Romans 8:26). True Shepherds know this place. Isolated and alone in the hills and valleys of the soul where the winds of the Spirit blow freely carrying the words of the Lord into the depths of the spirit of the Prophet, who in turn, turns them into expressions of deep sorrow and cries to God for the people.

It is not for himself he cries, but for the people he weeps, the depths of which are unknown to many, but the few go there often. “Deep calls unto deep” (Psalm 42:7). The Secret Soul goes deep into the Spirit and finds the richest treasures there.

There is a call going out to “hear and attend” (Jeremiah 13:15). There is an exhortation to “ascribe glory to the Lord your God before the darkness falls, before your feet stumble on the twilit hill-sides, before He turns the light you look for to deep gloom and thick darkness” (Jeremiah 13:16). For this The Secret Soul weeps in isolation in the solitary place of the Spirit. “If in those depths of gloom you will not listen, then for very anguish I can only weep and shed tears, my eyes must stream wtih tears; for the Lord’s flock is carried away into captivity” (Jeremiah 13:17).

The Prophet pleads for the self-willed to repent, for the conceited ones to humble themselves before the Lord.

“Because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and you humbled yourself before Me, and did rend your clothes and wept before Me, I have even heard you also, says the Lord” (II Chronicles 34:27).

It is not too late to turn. It is not too late to listen and hear. It is not too late for the Lord to be merciful. The Secret Soul prays earnestly for it to be as the Lord wills to spare, to revive, to restore the people to Himself.

Are you listening? Are you hearing? Are you ready to turn? The Secret Soul is praying for you now.

“Today, if you hear His voice” say yes!

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