Week 17, Day 5 Reading: Revelation 3:14-22Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.
This verse is often (probably could say "most" often) used in an evangelistic context. That if a person who is hearing the invitation to receive Christ were to open his heart to Jesus, then Jesus would enter into a personal relationship with that person. But the context indicates that the meaning is broader than this. Christ is actually knocking on the door of the wayward Laodicean church. His call is to an entire church! Wow! Hard to believe that in just a few short decades from being established, this particular church had sunk to such depths!
There is a warning in that for all of us. None of us are exempt from a wandering heart. There is much that the Enemy will use to entice us to wander away from God. The hymn writer, Robert Robinson expressed his desire for God to protect him from a wandering heart. Take a moment and reflect on his words. Then pray them to God!
O to grace how great a debtor
Daily I'm constrained to be!
Let that grace now like a fetter,
Bind my wandering heart to Thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love;
Here's my heart, O take and seal it,
Seal it for Thy courts above.
Thanks for stopping by . . .
pj
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