Behind Closed Doors

 

Most of our problems today have to do with doors. 

 

We face so many that are closed...some permanetly.  Struggle as we may, we cannot get them to open to us.  Opportunities seem to always go to someone else, and our dreams and hopes lay down with us each night, serving a life sentence inside a prison cell.

 

Then some doors invite us to places we may later wish we had never gone.

 

Our minds can paint pictures and fantasies showing us a one-sided view which hides the rough road ahead.  That attractive person that caught our eye—that bait which looked like answered prayer, led us into a nightmare. And the door clicked shut behind us.

 

People, perhaps you, are looking for SOMETHING that can give release from our torments, yet Satan’s bait is like a door which looks and feels like the answer.  We can take a drug to give us a “high”, or some pill that temporarily blocks out our senses, but we are only being lured to our ultimate destruction.  This is why many commit suicide...every door they tried only led to dead ends or prison cells.

 

 

Yet a certain verse in Matthew’s gospel speaks of a door that can be exclusively ours. A certain key to it has been given us, to both open and shut it again and again. It speaks a message that few ever hear and fewer still, will ever put into practice.

 

Jesus spoke of this particular door:

”Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and

open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me”.

(Rev. 3:29)

When you and I become a believer in Jesus, we are called “His sheep”.

 The Apostle John wrote about this particular door being like the sheepfold which a shepherd opens to let his sheep graze outside, or closes to keep them safe at night. Jesus declared that HE was that both the shepherd AND the door.

 

  “Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.  All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly”. (John 10:7)

 

NOTE: Both the Shepherd AND the door to the ANSWER to every problem, trial, and frustration with life.

 

But don’t forget—Jesus mentions that you and I are ALSO A DOOR which Jesus is asking for YOU to open FOR HIM!

 

He is the door to the sheepfold and His invitation is to be allowed to come through OUR door, so we can commune with Him personally.  We shut behind us all our problems and situations and pray to our Heavenly Father in Jesus’ name for all our needs.

 

Did you know that sheep will never lie down until they feel peace?

 

 

This the only place we can find life...MORE ABUNDANT LIFE!  We can then be led outside again into this troubled world and carry this peace with us wherever we go, returning to the shepherd and His sheepfold again and again to once again lie down in peace and safety.No crack cocaine can do that!  Nor can any other door.

 

Only His.

 

 

MARY E. ADAMS

 

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