Midweek Message from the Archive
Spiritual Doors
I read an article recently that discussed the color of your front door and what it says about your character. Silly, yes, but doors do speak; they silently communicate whether we’re admitted ‘in’ or kept ‘out’. Your entrance is permitted provided the door is open and unlocked, however, if the door is closed and locked you’re kept out.
The Bible speaks of spiritual doors in several ways. The first is protection. God shut the door of the ark with Noah and his family safely inside and then during Passover, God foreshadowed Messiah Jesus by instructing His people through Moses to apply blood to their doors and wait inside. Disaster was approaching in both accounts. Closed doors can be God’s protection.
Maybe your situation requires you to pray that God will open doors. In Gen. 4:7 we find God instructing Cain:
“If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it.”
That warning is true for us today. Satan is always crouched at our door, waiting for an opportunity to tempt us; the question is, will you open his counterfeit door? Jesus called Himself The Door in John 10:7-10, the upper story. Our Lord declared that if we would enter life through Him then kingdom living would be ours, conversely, when you open the door to your enemy you’ll only find him stealing, killing, and destroying life.
It’s a no-brainer: choose the door of life.
Secret giving and private prayer are open doors for believers (Matt. 6:1-6). Jesus, using word pictures again, teaches us to be stealthy in generosity and enter into our place of prayer, close the door, and pray in secret. He promised to reward that kind of giving and prayer. I don’t know what the reward looks like but watch for it: it’s on the way. It may take some time, be patient, and as the parable teaches (Luke 11:5-13), because of your persistence and relentlessness, He will open the door and give you whatever you need.
Lastly, in Hosea 2:15 the Lord promised to make our valleys of Achor into doors of hope. Spiritual valleys are those low places in life when we’re experiencing trials, troubles (achor), and fears but it’s not a place to remain. We may have opened the wrong door and fallen into trouble but God reminds us that He will throw us a lifeline and draw us back into kingdom life through the door of hope.
Jesus is knocking on your door today; will you open it and commune with Him?
“Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent. 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..” Revelation 3:19-20 ESV
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