MANY DOORS

MANY DOORS

Wednesday, May 29, 2019

  Proverbs [MKJV] 3:5-8 Trust in Jehovah with all your heart, and lean not to your own understanding.

In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths. Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear Jehovah and depart from evil. Healing shall be to your navel and marrow to your bones.

  Jeremiah 17:7-10 Blessed is the man who trusts in Jehovah, and Jehovah is his trust. For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters; it sends out its roots by the river, and it shall not fear when the heat comes, but its foliage shall be green; and he is not worried in the year of drought, nor will it cease from yielding fruit. The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? I Jehovah search the heart, I try the reins, even to give to each man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

  Bryan Poole is my friend, friend to many, brother in Christ, acting out his 2Corinthians 5:14-20 ambassadorship in numerous ways, one of which is via his talent as a singer songwriter. One of my favorites other than the song he wrote to dear Ann, is one about the many doors in life. Recognizing the doors and opening or sealing Biblically being an edifying way to live; pleasingly constructive before God and man, beneficial to self and others.

  The first mention of such a portal is God speaking to Caine presenting him with understanding: “…the LORD asked Cain, "Why are you angry, and why do you look disappointed? If you do well, won't you be accepted? But if you don't do well, sin is lying outside your door ready to attack. It wants to control you, but you must master it.” (GW Gen.4) This same insight availably ours forever after as we read the story.

  Exactly what is the lesson here? Anger and disappointment dominating leaves us at a high risk threshold . . . and it is us that has the individual responsibility to master troublesome emotions, or not; and as throughout His Word thereafter, God directs How To, not acting as THE FIXER.

  The next to the last “door” in God’s Word is in Revelation (MKJV) 3:19-20 “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 will dine with him and he with Me.”

  What is the lesson here? God again in love and mercy giving guidance that requires personal individual responsibility in accepting and implementing, or not.

  Bryan, I, and others I know are door people, knowing that life presents many accessible thresholds. This we hold in common. We also hold in common the lack of always recognizing portals in timely fashion, and at times not traversing in way pleasing to God when we do.

  One of the worst doors to traverse is the popular worldly philosophy “Follow your heart.”, for as God explains, the heart is untrustworthy above all things.

EBB4