“For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And the door is opened to everyone who knocks.”(MATTHEW 7:8 NLT
10 years I saw it. I was in a dark space and in front of me was this door of light. This light is not white but had a yellowish warm tint to it. I have seen this light several times in different visions that that Lord has given to me.
When I gave my life to God, I instinctively knew this was the door that God had opened for me. It was a sign to show I was welcome. It was an invitation to join him.
I have reflected back on that door many times but it was today that I thought about why there is a door.
Obviously God controls the door of light but before we are saved we aren’t even aware that there is a door of light. We are missing this spiritual sight and hearing that the Holy Spirit gives us, to helps us to understand and mature in the things of God.
I believe we all know before we come to God that there is “something” that keeps us from seeing spiritual things of God. Someone may share the things of God but they don’t adhere to our understanding. We don't retain everything they say about God. In fact Jesus refers to this when he says, "And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. The old skins would burst from the pressure spilling the wine and ruining the skins. New wine must be stored in new wineskins. That way both the wine and the wineskins are preserved." MATTHEW 9:17 NLT
Some of us are even unaware that sin separates us from God because we believe things like, “I haven’t murdered anyone” and “I know I am not as bad as that person” but God doesn’t care about human comparison because he looks at sin on the same perspective except for one particular sin.
“Those” sins- that God looks at on the same perspective, are all forgivable by the blood of Jesus Christ. We are forgiven of our sins only by our faith in Jesus Christ. Faith is not just, “I believe” in Jesus Christ because even the devil “believes” in Jesus Christ but by faith which is a change of heart that only comes when one gives their life to God and trusts in our beloved friend Jesus Christ. This change of heart is a transformation of our life (new wineskins) in which we no longer "practice sin" but grow and mature in the things God now is teaching us.
So if sin separates us from God and we are blind and deaf to the things of God what opens the door?
I believe the door is opened in this measure of knowledge that God puts in our hearts. (ROMANS 1:19). This measure of knowledge is as tiny a mustard seed. (MATTHEW 13:31) We instinctively know there is a God because this measure of knowledge he put in us when he created us. It maybe tiny but have God water it and see what happens. A person can’t make their faith any stronger or more sincere without God’s help. It is impossible. In fact if that is what a person does- all they have is a religion. A religion is ritual that is as ritualistic as washing the dishes every night. Faith is a relationship. You don't have a relationship with your dishes but with God.
You have to have a measure of knowledge of God to ask. You have to have a measure of knowledge of God to seek. You have to have a measure of knowledge of God to knock.
This instinctive measure of knowledge is what God uses to open the door to any heart but as always it a choice with God. God didn’t want us to just be some creature without a will but he wanted us to freely love and worship him and come to him to be freed from our spiritual blindness and deafness. He wanted us to come to him so we would be saved in his Son, Jesus Christ and grow mighty in the faith of Jesus Christ. He had a second birth in mind for us, to be born in the Spirit of God.
Are you asking? Are you seeking? Are you knocking?
God has left a trail of breadcrumbs in your life- some have been eaten by the birds of life and some stolen by the rodents that live in darkness but He made sure there would always be enough of a trail of breadcrumbs to find your way home to him.
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