Greetings to all, let us thank God for this Tuesday morning, another day to give him praise and to worship Him. I pray that God visits each of our homes, jobs, churches, cities, states, and the world with His love, healing, blessings, and miracles.
At this challenging time, during this pandemic, our lives are full of stress! For the most part, by now many of us are feeling bored and trapped in our homes because of the continued social distancing. There are not as many knocks at our physical doors during these days, but Jesus continues to knock at the door of our hearts.
We all have things that we want to do and places that we want to go. But God seems to be saying peace be still, I want to visit with you. It's as if the pressing of a social pause button has been pushed to stop the world.
Many are longing and asking when will things go back to normal?
The scripture today teaches us that Jesus knocks at the door of each of our hearts because he wants to save us and have fellowship with us. The problem with the Laodicea church was, they thought they were rich toward God, but they were actually spiritually dead. They had become lukewarm...
We can see Jesus in the scripture being patient and persistent in trying to get through to them. Not breaking and entering but knocking. He allowed them and He is allowing us to decide whether or not to open our lives to him.
Revelation 3:13-22 (TLB) 13 "Let all who can hear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. 14 "Write this letter to the leader of the church in Laodicea: "This message is from the one who stands firm, the faithful and true Witness [of all that is or was or evermore shall be], the primeval source of God’s creation: 15 "I know you well—you are neither hot nor cold; I wish you were one or the other! 16 But since you are merely lukewarm, I will spit you out of my mouth! 17 "You say, ’I am rich, with everything I want; I don’t need a thing!’ And you don’t realize that spiritually you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked. 18 "My advice to you is to buy pure gold from me, gold purified by fire—only then will you truly be rich. And to purchase from me white garments, clean and pure, so you won’t be naked and ashamed; and to get medicine from me to heal your eyes and give you back your sight. 19 I continually discipline and punish everyone I love; so I must punish you unless you turn from your indifference and become enthusiastic about the things of God. 20 "Look! I have been standing at the door, and I am constantly knocking. If anyone hears me calling him and opens the door, I will come in and fellowship with him and he with me. 21 I will let everyone who conquers sit beside me on my throne, just as I took my place with my Father on his throne when I had conquered. 22 Let those who can hear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches."
Lesson: We must not knowingly keep Christ's life-altering presence, and power on the other side of the door.
Jesus stands outside the door of our lives and knocks. He waits for us to respond to his presence and His love, and He wants us to open our lives to him.
He will continue to stand at the door of our lives until we open the door. He says: “Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest, and repent.”
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