The Christian's Crowbar                                                          Feb. 1, 2005

"He shall shut, and none shall open." Legion is the number who praise God for open doors, but few there be who are thankful for closed ones. Yet it is the same God that does both. Years ago, the Lord taught me, through my wife, to be just as excited for a closed door as a wide open one. I'm sure, if not in this life, then in the next, the Lord will show each of us the tragedy that lay behind the door that we were so desirous and insistent upon entering. Closed doors should not bring sadness, but, rather, gladness, into our lives.

Each of God's children has a tool chest, so to speak, but there should be no place in it for a "Christian crowbar." Why would anyone want to force an entrance into the unknown, when God is on this side of the door with us? Noah found this out, to his own delight, after God had shut the door.

                                                                                                    (RDS)