Someone at the door …

  Suppose you are busy eating and someone starts knocking on your door.  It is not an excessive pounding nor is it a hard rapping but yet the knocking seems intentional, as if the guest has something to give you. You are not overly concerned with the guest at the door as you are basically comfortable with our life.  You really don’t need any intrusions from some unwanted or uninvited guest.  Your life is floating along like a branch on a lazy river. Things are not going badly in your life as you take it easy drifting through your life.  You don’t get excited about very much in your life as you are too busy with all you have. You don’t really need anything more as you really have no needs of any kind. You might momentarily dream of acquiring more, so you can do less but generally you are fine.  You do not see others but see often focus on yourself.  You look around, seeing all that money can buy and feel all of your things will go on forever.

      The knocking at the door continues and you wonder what the guest at the door could possibly have to give to such a wealthy person as yourself. You don’t need any instruction from anyone, nor do you need any rebuke as most people like you and you don’t bother anyone nor do you bother with anyone.  You are not concerned with helping others nor do you care about anyone coming to your aid.  No one commands your attention and you have no desire to waste your attention on anyone else. 

     You have a faith in yourself and that seems most adequate for your life. You could be called moral but your morals never motivate you to do anything.  You don’t help or care because you have no consuming love for anyone or anything.

     Still the knocking persists … as there is still someone at the door.  What if, all you have is of no value and what if, all you have clothed yourself is rotting away? What if the person you are is of no substance and has no significance beyond your living for yourself?  What if, the real truth is at the door and you are poor and hopeless beyond the illusions and delusions in your blindness as to who you really are? 

     When you realize your emptiness and your need and as you repent of your blindness and selfishness … you will find there is a guest at the door.  A guest who will love you and draw near to you in every way giving you bread and wine that will nourish for all time, gold that will not fade away and  holy garments that will not ever age. He will cover all your shame redeeming it and all of your life with a healing touch to your eyes that may truly see. As He comes to you and spends time with you, you will change to love as He loves and love all that He love.  All you have do is open the door to the one who is standing just outside and wants to love you forever. 

“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 3:20, ESV)

 Suggested Reading ... Christ's Words to the Church at Laodicea (Revelation 3:14-22)