One summer day, my brother and sister and I were invited to Joe and Judy’s house for an afternoon of fun and pizza. We decided to go to the lake on bicycles, and their mom would walk there. At the end of our afternoon of fun, Joe and Judy’s mom called their dad, who was already home from work, to let him know it was time to go pick up the pizza for supper.
When we were biking back to their house on the main road, we saw their dad leaving to go pick up the pizza. Since their mom was walking back to the house, we suddenly realized that we would be the only ones at the house, and we would be locked out.
The back door was always unlocked, but now with nobody home it would be locked until their dad got back. We tried opening a few windows, but they were locked. Suddenly Joe said, “I know a way to get in!” Joe’s bedroom was over the garage, and the window lock was broken. Since there was a ladder on the porch, my brother James went to get it so I could climb through the upstairs window with the broken lock and then unlock the front door from the inside.
When I was up there trying to pry open the screen, their dad arrived, and knowing what we were trying to do, he stopped to watch. Then he called up to us with more than just a smile in his voice, “Did you try the front door?”
As it turned out, the front door had been unlocked the whole time! James and I exchanged looks that said, Why didn’t we think of that?
That is just like the people who think they can get into heaven their own way. They try every way based on their own works. What they don’t realize is that the only way is through an “open door” that is based on the work of the Lord Jesus on the cross. They can try their whole lives and never come any closer to heaven. John 14:66Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (John 14:6) says, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.”
Are you still trying to get into heaven without using the “open door” that God has provided through the death of His Son, the Lord Jesus, and His shed blood?
ML-09/09/2018