Open The Door To Jesus, It Opens From Within

by Kevin Burton

   Jesus is the all-powerful Son of God. There is no door in Heaven or on earth that he can not open.

   In fact, shortly after His resurrection, Jesus passed through a locked door to join a meeting of His disciples. You can read about that in John 20:19. (That’s a few verses before the “doubting Thomas” passage.)

   But Jesus, with every right to bust down the door and restore order, waits at the door of your heart. He waits for you to take action, for your invitation.

   “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me,” (Rev. 3:20, NKJV).

   What a glorious promise!  And once you’ve heard that promise how can your thoughts linger on the things of earth?

   Can you not hear that knocking? Can you not hear His voice?

   More questions along these lines now, from a recent message by Alistair Begg, speaker on the Truth For Life radio ministry.

   “What is your desire this evening? Is it focused on heavenly things? Do you long to enjoy the high doctrine of eternal love? Do you desire liberty in very close communion with God? Do you aspire to know the heights and depths and lengths and breadths of His love? “

   “Then you must draw near to Jesus,” Begg writes, “you must get a clear sight of Him in His preciousness and completeness: you must view Him in His work—in His role as prophet, friend, and king—and in His person.”

   “He who understands Christ, receives an anointing from the Holy One, by which He knows all things. Christ is the great master-key of all the chambers of God: There is no treasure-house of God that will not open and yield up all its wealth to the soul that lives near to Jesus.”

   “Are you saying, ‘I wish that He would live in my heart and make it His dwelling-place forever’?”

   “Open the door, beloved, and He will come into your soul. He has been knocking continually in order that you and He may break bread together. He eats with you because you provide the house or the heart, and you with Him because He brings the meal. He could not eat with you if it were not in your heart, you finding the house; nor could you eat with Him, for you would have an empty table if He did not bring the food with Him.”

   I quoted Rev. 3:20 earlier. Let’s widen now, the view from that chapter. This is Jesus speaking to the lukewarm church at Laodicea.

   .This, so you know just who it is doing the knocking, the gifts He brings and what He requires:

   “I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten.  Therefore be zealous and repent. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me. To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.” (Rev. 3:18-21 NKJV).

   “Fling wide, then, the portals of your soul,” is the good Heavenly advice from Begg.” He will come with that love that you long to feel; He will come with that joy into which you cannot work your poor depressed spirit.”

   “He will bring the peace that now you do not have; He will come with His sweet apples of love and will cheer you until you have no other sickness but that of overpowering, divine love.,” Begg writes.

   “Only open the door to Him, drive out His enemies, give Him the keys of your heart, and He will live there forever. What wondrous love that brings such a guest to dwell in such a heart!”