Good Morning All!!
Revelation
3:20; “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears
my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he
with me.”
Perhaps you have tried to have a
conversation with someone who really does not want to have one. Maybe they sit there and are focused on their
phone or their computer. Maybe they don’t
acknowledge that you are even there trying to talk to them. Perhaps you have even been part of the
conversation where a door is shut between you and the other person. Now you can’t even see them. Now you can’t even see what reaction, if any,
there is to what you are saying.
Conversation with someone who does not want to listen or respond to what
you are saying is very difficult; trying this when you are in two different
rooms is almost impossible especially if one does not even try or is actively
hostile to talking.
In many ways, this is what sin does to
us. It shuts the door between God and
man. It closes communication. Before sin entered the world, communication
between God and man was wide open. The
heart of man was entirely open to God and to listening to God. This is part of the walking in the cool of
the morning experience. It is a time
that is in perfect communication and communion with God. But sin shuts the door. Sin causes us to avoid conversations with
God. Sin causes us to fear conversations
with God and sin clouds our heart, soul and mind in order that we forget how to
communicate with God. We sit in self-enforced
silence. We do all we can do to avoid
listening to God.
Yet God continually calls to us, comes to
us, speaks to us, inviting us into this holy conversation with him. He invites us to listen to his words of comfort,
of love and hope. He invites us in to
hear of his great mercy. He invites us
to speak to him of our fears and our dreams and to offer our thanksgiving for
the wonders of the mercies that God has given to us.
Yet we continually slam the door; we continually
walk in our sinful ways. This is where
our verse can give us comfort. Jesus
doesn’t give up on the conversation.
Jesus doesn’t turn and walk away.
Jesus doesn’t throw up his hands and say, “I quit” Jesus never quits,
even to our last breath Jesus is knocking on the door of our heart seeking to
bring us comfort and hope. When we stop
slamming the door and start to listen to God’s perfect grace, we find peace in
this life. When we start to listen to
God’s perfect love, we find comfort.
When we start listening to God’s perfect mercy, we find life
eternal. Jesus is standing at your life
seeking you. Jesus desires you so that you might be saved. Jesus seeks you so that he may talk to you
and to tell you that he loves you dearly and seeks your salvation so that you
may live with him in peace eternally.
Gracious
Father, in you we have peace. In your
wondrous love we find comfort and joy.
Lead me to open my heart and mind to you. Lead me to open my soul to the wonders of
your love. Guide me with your
Spirit. Be with those who have yet to
open their heart and lives to you. Bring
them into your holy family. Speak that
all may hear. In the precious name of Jesus
we pray, amen.
God’s Peace,
Pastor Bret
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