Abolish Halloween: HALLOWEEN IS OVER BUT SOMEBODY'S STILL KNOCKING ON MY DOOR!

Saturday, November 7, 2009

HALLOWEEN IS OVER BUT SOMEBODY'S STILL KNOCKING ON MY DOOR!

Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me. To him who overcomes, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I overcame and sat down with my Father on his throne. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. (Revelation 3:20-22)


Somebody's knocking on my door! Do I dare to open it? Somebody's knocking just now! He is waiting that I would open the door and answer to His invitation because I can hear His voice.
Maybe He doesn't know that I am very busy right now! I have to clean my house. I have to cook food for my children because soon they will come from school. Huh, terrible hurry! Music playing from radio, vacuum cleaner is on, dishwasher is running. Is He believing that I could hear His silent invitation in the middle of all this noise.
He is still knocking! Should I open? What will I say to Him?
I am a sinner. I am afraid to open! I have within so much guilt and shame. I am afraid. I can't move my legs, I am petrified.
However His voice is soft and appealing!

For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross. (Colossians 1:19-20)

However He has made atonement for my sin, wickedness and imperfection. It is not necessary to hide and cover them anymore. That's why I can open the door, and I know, when I open a mild breeze will come in when He steps over the threshold.

This is what the LORD says: "In the time of my favor I will answer you, and in the day of salvation I will help you; I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land and to reassign its desolate inheritances, to say to the captives, 'Come out,' and to those in darkness, 'Be free!' "They will feed beside the roads and find pasture on every barren hill. They will neither hunger nor thirst, nor will the desert heat or the sun beat upon them. He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside springs of water. (Isaiah 49:8-10)

Dare I open my door? Do I dare go to the light? My longing increases! I want to go out to the wider place, out from snuggle of myself. I like to be with Him! Don't go away! You see how lonely I am.

And I open my door!

Not only is this so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation. (Romans 5:11)

Here I am! Please come in, step inside! Come into my heart!

Such is the generation of those who seek him, who seek your face, O God of Jacob. Lift up your heads, O you gates; be lifted up, you ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in. Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O you gates; lift them up, you ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in. (Psalm 24:6-9)

Glory and praise will be devoted for who was knocking, our Lord, Jesus Christ! He doesn't get tired when He is looking and inviting us. He is knocking allways on our door! He likes to eat with us!

Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests. (Luke 2:14)
Special Thanks to Pastor Jorma Kuusijärvi

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