A statement of frustration brings us today’s word-of-the-week…
OPENS
“It feels like even when I’m at the right door it never opens for me.”
“Okay, tell me how it works.”
“It’s like I’m following my dream, doing the thing I think I’m called to do, but the door never opens.”
“So following your dream feels like you’re fighting yourself?”
“Exactly!”
“Well, here’s my theory. I think if you’re following your God-inspired dream, it shouldn’t feel like that. It may not be easy, but it shouldn’t feel like you’re fighting yourself.
“Can we try something?
“Sure.”
“Imagine Jesus is standing on the other side of that door, knocking. Please push the door open and let Him in.”
He reached for the handle. “You mean ‘Pull the door open,’ right? I can’t push it. It doesn’t open that way.”
“No, I’d really like you to push it. I believe that’s the way it’s supposed to happen.”
“But can’t push it open.”
“Wait, are you telling me that if Jesus Himself was standing on the other side of that door you couldn’t push it open if I told you to?”
“Well, I could try, but that’s not the way it opens.”
“Do you think it’s possible that’s what happens with the doors of your dreams? I think sometimes we decide in advance not only WHAT should happen but EXACTLY HOW it should happen.
“Maybe you’re at the right door, but you’re absolutely certain you should push through it when that’s not the way it opens.”
The popular view says if the door doesn’t open, it wasn’t your door.
Maybe it simply opens the other way.
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Rich is an author and speaker. He is the author of:
Relentless Grace: God’s Invitation To Give Hope Another Chance. Visit his web site www.relentlessgrace.com