In Revelation 3, Jesus told the lukewarm
church in Laodicea:
“Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the
door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me” (Revelation
3:19-20 ESV).
Commenting on this passage, our brother
Jim McGuiggan wrote:
The little girl was with her
father at the art gallery.The both
stopped to look at the portrait of Jesus knocking at the door.He looked a little weary.She wanted to know from her irreligious
father who the door-knocker was.“Jesus”
he said rather sharply (but not intending to be sharp).“It he tired?” she asked.“Looks like it,” he answered more
patiently.“Why won’t they let him
in?”“How do I know, baby…now come
on.”Conscience is now at work.Later that day—“How come they wouldn’t let
Jesus in, dad?”Irritated, “I told you I
don’t know!”That night, on her way to
bed, “Why wouldn’t they let Jesus in?”A
soft answer in a subdued voice, “I guess because they’re bad, kitten.And foolish.”After the goodnightkiss and on
her way to the bedroom, “Well, we’d let him in—wouldn’t we, daddy!”That night he lay wrestling with the question
on his mind, “Why don’t I let him in?”He did what he needed to do and let Jesus into his life.Why don’t you?If you have been immersed into Jesus Christ
for the remission of sins and have drifted away—come on home again.This passage is written about people such as
yourself.Let him in.If you’ve never been a Christian—read Acts
2.All of it.See what they believed and did in order to
have the remission of sins and then go and do the same.
Notice the
little girl’s question about Jesus, “Is he tired?”Mrs. M.B.C. Slade asked that same question
when she wrote the song, “Who at the Door is Standing?”In the second verse, she wrote, “All thro’
the dark hours dreary, knocking again is He; Jesus art Thou not weary, waiting
so long for me?”And what do you
think?Is Jesus tired, weary of knocking
on the door of your heart?
Mrs.
Slade’s song ends on a positive not, with words we would all do well to say:
“Door of my heart, I hasten!Thee will I
open wide; Tho’ He rebuke and chasten, He shall with me abide.”
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