The Door Will Open Wide

But since we are of the day, we must stay sober by putting on the breastplate of faith and love and as a helmet our hope for salvation. For God did not destine us for wrath but for gaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. He died for us so that whether we are alert or asleep we will come to life together with Him. Therefore encourage one another and build up each other, just as you are in fact doing.  1 Thessalonians 5:8-11 NET

The genuine rescue of our heart begins with our genuine pursuit of God’s open door. Only when we seek God with our whole heart will we find Him. 

He is not interested in a part of us. He desires for us to pursue Him with all we have. Giving Jesus only part of our hearts is the same as only giving Him part of our daily life. The rest of it is still going to kill you. He does not want to heal just a shard of our brokenness; He wants to heal all of it.  Likewise, giving Him only part of our heart would be the same as trying to steer part of a bike. Until the whole bike is leaning into the curve, we are not going anywhere we should be. The Lord of all creation does not merely want to redeem, heal, and free a part of your heart, a portion of your soul, a bit of your mind and a piece of your strength. 

Luke 11:9-10 NET So I tell you: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

Know this, God knows, sees and understands all things, each thought we process, each crime we commit, each lie we tell but there is freedom from those chains!  Because of Holy Spirit we know and believe that when we repent, when we accept and confess that Jesus Christ died on the cross for us, for each and every person ever born, who will ever be born, we are set free and get to live out freedom in the name of Jesus for the kingdom of heaven. 

God we praise You!

Complete renewal before God for each of us begins when we stop presenting Him with small parts of perceived perfection and start pursuing Him with all we have!  All the buckets of flowers and bins of compost! All the stuff we like and hate about ourselves….. we, you me, us, all have the same choice offered by Jesus and when we are honest with Him we get to genuinely move deeper into the loving presence of God, pursue Him, sing praise and worship to Him with abandon, speak quietly to Him in prayer, the time is now seek the Lord with all of your heart.

Jesus told us to ask, seek, knock, chase. These are words of action—actions we can all do for the glory of God’s kingdom, for the salvation of souls, ours and others!