Our Heart has a Door

My heart has an inside door, but there is another way in. My heart is the seat of my feelings. It’s there that both love and hate are felt. Joy causes my heart to soar. Discontentment is received in the same place and drags it down into emptiness. Peace and fear find a hearing in my heart, one creating a lush garden and the other a cold dark prison. Feelings that are so vivid and contrasting. How can a single heart receive both? We know the feeling, don’t we? One minute we are up on the mountain, ecstatic with the emotion of a connection with the Lord. The next we are lost and lonely and sad, hopelessly lost in the dark valley.

It is a fallacy for me to think that I feel because of circumstances. When everything is as it should be, surely I should feel peace. When good things happen, that is the way to feel joy, right? Do I love when something attractive and lovely is before me? We go out of our way to find peace, love and happiness, and we find them so elusive. That is because circumstances don’t cause emotions. Our environment is a real factor, but we give it too much credit. Our heart has a door.

…he who enters by the door is a shepherd of the sheep. To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name…

John 10:2-3

There is a doorway between our spirit and our soul. Our soul, made up of our heart (emotions), mind and will is transformed when our saviour come to call on us. The Holy Spirit dwells in our spirit. He is our connection with heaven. Jesus, by the Spirit within us, comes to us. The Spirit is the doorkeeper, and he opens for Christ. Our experience when Christ visits, touches our mind, emotions and will. He brings heavenly wisdom that conforms our desires to his, so that we can approve of the perfect will of God. He comes with heavenly gifts of joy and peace and love to be received in our heart, and we rise up. He transforms our mind with his truth

To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he puts forth all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.

John 10:3-4

We hear his voice and he draws us back through that doorway into the spirit. In the spirit we enjoy the glories of our inheritance and blessings in the heavenlies. We rise heavenward to dwell in the Father’s house. Our heart has a door, a portal that is fundamentally important to all our enjoyment and experience within our Christian life.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me. 21 He who overcomes, I will grant to him to sit down with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.

Revelation 3:20-21

Jesus knocks on the door. It is ours to respond and open that door. He will come in to dine and we will be transformed. Then we will lead us out, heavenward to share his throne, and all the wonders of our destiny in Him.

My heart and yours has an inside door, but there is another way in.

…he who does not enter by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some other way, he is a thief and a robber….A stranger they simply will not follow, but will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.

John 10:1,5

All those negative emotions get into our heart when we let in another guest. He does not come bearing heavenly gifts. He is a thief and a robber. He steals our joy and leaves us with empty discontentment. He takes away our love and the vacuum of hate is what we feel. He robs us of our peace and we are overcome with feelings of fear. He does not enter by the door. He attacks our soul directly. He strikes our minds and sows lies and doubts, and steals away the seed of truth planted there. He misdirects our desires and will so that we are driven to chase mirages in a desert. He will destroy us if we let him have his way. Jesus said:

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.

John 10:10

I feel a desire to have Christ dine with me. I want to listen. I long to be transformed. I want to open the door to him, enjoy him and his gifts and then follow him and he leads me into blessing and abundant life in the Father’s house. For me, I desire this today, and every day.