"THE LORD JESUS IS YOUR DOOR"

"I am the door if anyone enters by Me, he will
 be save, and will go in and out and find
  pasture."
                                                         John 10: 9


       As a Christian, we talk about God
"opening doors" to us as a means of His
revealing His will what we are asking God to
do is engineer our circumstances to match
what we think would be best. The problem is
that we misunderstood what the door is. Jesus
said He is the door. Circumstances are
irrelevant, for no one can shut the door that
 Jesus opens (Rev. 3:8). If you have
substituted activity for your relationship with
Christ, then circumstances can disrupt your
activity. When the activity is hindered, you
may assume the door has been closed. Yet, if
Christ is the door in your life, He will guide
you into every experience of Him that He
wants, and there will be nothing that people
can do to stop Him.
     When Paul and Silas were thrown into
prison at Philippi, it appeared that the hour of
their ministry in Greece had been violently
and firmly closed (Act 16:32-34). The reality
of their situation, however, was that their
Lord had opened a door of ministry to a
previously in reached group of men in prison.
The Philippians jailer and his household
would be one a significant nucleus of the new
church in Philippi. From a human perspective,
 a door had been closed; from God's
perspective, Paul and Silas continue to
minister exactly where God wanted them to.
    When people oppose us, we can become
discouraged or worry about what others are
doing to us. We may even try to take matters
into our own hands to accomplish what we
think God wants. This reveals that we do not
really believe Jesus is the door for our lives.
If we did, we would be assured that through
Jesus Christ we have access to everything
He wants to go in and through us.