Outside the Door

Jesus stands at everyone’s heart’s door: “Behold I stand at the door and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in” (Revelation 3:20a). But Jesus will never push or beg His way into anyone’s life. When He knocks and we let Him in, we accept His invitation to enter God’s doorway to salvation. We are saved by confessing with our mouth the Lord Jesus and believing that God raised Him from the dead (Romans 10:9). You become a sheep of the Father’s pasture, and Jesus, The Door to the sheepfold (John 10:9), will protect you, feed you, and supply a place of rest.

Those who reject Jesus’ knocking—do not repent and turn to God—will spend eternity separated from the Father who loves them; He is the only way to the Father (John 14:6). We can’t earn our way into heaven by being or doing good, not even by loving God and others. If you haven’t accepted God’s saving grace, open your heart’s door to His Savior today before it grows cold and callous and the opportunity is gone. Jesus doesn’t knock indefinitely.