I know your works. See, I have set before you an open door, and no one can shut it; for you have a little strength, have kept My word, and have not denied My name. —
Revelation 3:8
The kind of doors that open for us determine the places we can enter. If a classroom door opens to you, you will enter a classroom. If a business door opens to you, you enter into that business. Open doors are exciting but each one of us has experienced a closed door. Sometimes we try for some doors to open to us without success. There are job seekers who try one door after another, yet no one responds to their résumé. No university accepts their application. No buyers look at your property.Revelation 3:8
The good news is that our God is able to use closed doors to advance His cause. He closed the womb of a young Sarah so he could display his power to the elderly one. He shut the palace door on Moses the prince so he could open another door to Moses the liberator. He marched Daniel out of Jerusalem so he could reveal the God of Heaven to Babylon.
Our Lord Jesus also knew the challenge of a blocked door. In the garden of Gethsemane He did not have His will granted. When He requested a path that bypassed the cross, the Father said no. Yet out of that ‘no’ came the greatest ‘yes’ of all time. Yes, to our salvation. Yes, to our healing. Yes, to our blessing. Yes, to heaven.
God’s ‘no’ is not a denial. It is a redirection from our path to His path. From our way to His way. Ultimately, what we consider a closed door is actually an open door to something bigger, better and greater.
Prayer:
Lord, when the door shuts, help me to see the new doors you’ve set before me and the new path you want me to walk on.Scriptural Reading:
Revelation 3:7-13
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