“In My Father’s House are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you” (John 14:2).

Place (Def): (Gr.): Topos: A spot, location; figuratively condition, opportunity, scabbard

It is of the nature of the Lord to be very specific when it comes to arranging things. He can engineer circumstances and situations that will leave you amazed. This One Place, this one spot, this one location, as the scabbard is for the sword, or the sheath for the knife; there is one specific place for you to be in Him.

It is important for us to find that spot, that location for our lives; that place where we fit perfectly with nothing out of alignment, no awkwardness, no rubbing shoulders with others that is not palatable. This One Place is the perfect place for us to abide.

Jesus said, “I go to prepare a place for you”. He will go to find the perfect spot for you in His Body, in His Father’s House. He knows us that well, and He knows the will of the Father better. Hopefully, we will oblige Him and yield to His leading and His assignments. Go where we are sent, abide where we are to abide, run when told to run and stay when the order is to stay.

This One Place, is the right place for us. Others may wonder why we are not with them, or wonder why we are not staying where we are, not understanding we must be with the Father, and where He places us at the right place, the perfect spot, as Jesus had to be with His Father and about His business (cf. Luke 2:49).

The desire to be in our place is an ancient one. Moses desired to see the Father’s Glory and prayed so, to hear the Father say, “you cannot see My Face, for there shall no man see Me and live. Then the Lord said, ‘Behold, there is a Place by Me, and you shall stand upon a Rock'” (Exodus 33:20-21).

There was One Place Moses could stand to see the Goodness of the Father; on the Rock, and that Rock was Christ (cf. I Corinthians 10:4). This One Place was the spot for Moses to be at just the right time when the Father passed by him on that day. On Christ alone is the perfect place for all time, for every situation, for every occasion in the Lord.

This One Place was the place where all of history met together to decide the fate of all mankind, Golgotha, the Place of the Skull (cf. Matthew 27:33). This is the place where everything was decided, where judgment was passed upon all sin, where the great exchange was made, where the transaction was completed.

“For He has made Him to be sin for us who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him” (II Corinthians 5:21).

Oh, may we be found in This One Place, may we be found in Him (cf. Philippians 3:9), in His Righteousness, the “righteousness of God in Him”. The fountain of all goodness, the fruit of all righteousness, holiness and peace.

There is another place that testifies of Him, the empty tomb. This One Place bears witness, not only to His death, but to His Resurrection.

The Angel said to them, ‘Be not afraid: You seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified, He is Risen, He is not here; behold the Place where they laid Him'” (Mark 16:6).

One place of death, one place of life, testifying to the death, burial and resurrection of our Lord.

The question is, have you found your place? Can you say, This One Place is where I stand. Here in the place prepared for me will I abide. Here I am found in Him, my Lord, my Savior, my Master and my God.

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