Behold, I’m standing at the door, knocking. If your heart is open to hear my voice and you open the door within, I will come in to you and feast with you, and you will feast with me. Rev. 3:20
A friend reminded meof this berse and the famous painting of Jesus standing at the door to a house knocking. The original was painted by Hokman Hunt and since that time there have been many what I call “repaints”. Although many differing ways that portray the symbols in the picture, the meaning is the same. All the pictures are inviting with a warm light, vines or flowers growing up the wall and Jesus with a friendly, loving look on His face and Him knocking on a closed door. But the one thing every painter left out, is a doorknob.
when Holman was asked about the missing pieve of the door that is so important, by a friend; his answer was “because the knob is inside, you must open the door.” But so many just focus on that one aspect of the painting, when truly there is so much more going on. The closed door is representative of a closed mind to Him. The light that surrounds Jesus reminds us He not only is the Light of the World, but that He brings the light we need to see Him and His ways clearly. The vines that look so nice and pleasing actually are to show how we can get tangled up by the things of this world, because they look so good, It’s amazing how we can see so much more when we take the time to stop and study what we are looking at.
The way God still speaks to us is no different. If we just go hastily through a day, we will miss the subtle ways God is talking to us. We spend precious litlle time in His Word, just reading a verse or two, but not taking the time to study it. He places something in our day to slow us down, but we are so busy we blow it off and see it as a nuisence. Perhaps, He wants you to just know He’s there, but the best we can do is give Him our laundry list of requests and hurry off. So how is God trying to get you to hear His voice?
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