The Door and the Shepherd

How many times have you gone through a door in your life? Most of the time opening a door goes without thought. Sometimes though, the most memorable of occasions of our lives can follow after we pass through a doorway. These occasions can be the most joyful times to the worst times. There is a door that we can choose to open that will lead to eternal life. In the 10^th chapter of John’s gospel, Jesus describes the most important door that your soul will ever choose to open. Jesus says: “I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.” John 10:9

In times uncertainty human nature says: is there another way? When we don’t know what lays on the other side of the door we say: there’s got to be another way. But there is no other way to the Father but by Jesus. John 10:1 & 14:6. In other situations we worry ourselves about who is going to be on the other side of the door. Whether it is a meeting with total strangers, or a group of acquaintances that you haven’t seen in some time. Once we enter the door of Christ we are part of the body of Christ and are members of his flock where he knows us by name. There are other times where the door we open will require leadership afterwards. Nervously walking to the door of my first job I so desperately wished for a boss who would show me everything I needed to know with a kind hand. In John 10:4, we see that once we accept Christ we never have to fear the way unknown, (He leads us).

Once a person closes the door of the Doctor’s office where they learned of their life-threatening condition, they anxiously wonder; what is next? We know as a member of the flock we have a glorious pasture. John 10:9 & Psalm 100:3. And In this pasture no longer will we worry about a door because Jesus is the door and we shall come and go. Why, because Jesus laid down his life for us. We are eternally secured on either side of the door because Jesus cares for his flock. “And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.” John 10:4&5. Do you know the Lord’s voice? Have comfort in whatever is behind a earthly door in choosing to open The Door, which is Jesus Christ.