IN A country town some boys would come together and have a prayer meeting. A little girl named Hazel was passing by and heard them singing. She stopped to listen and thinking it was just an ordinary prayer meeting, open to all, she tried to get in. Reaching up her hand she pulled the latch, but the door would not open; it was fastened inside.
As she turned away, Hazel thought, “What if this were the door of heaven, and I was left outside?”
The little girl went home, but not to sleep. Day after day she became more troubled at the thought of being shut outside the door of heaven.
One day she was reading John’s Gospel, Chapter 10, and came to the words where the Lord Jesus says: “I am the door; by Me if any man enter in he shall be saved.” Hazel paused and reread the verse again and again. Then by faith she entered in and was joyfully saved. And so may you, dear reader, by receiving the Lord Jesus as your Saviour.
I am the Door, the words are but four,
Millions are in, and there’s room for more.
The door’s open wide, come right inside,
And thou shalt be saved.
ML-05/05/1974