My brother in law’s shirt caught my eye the other day, as we had our boys at the park playing together.
“We help people walk through walls.”
I was intrigued- but didn’t get it. So I asked.
“Oh, it’s my work” he said. “We make doors.”
Ahhh! Made total sense now that I understood.
It was nothing too deep. But I couldn’t get it out of my head. Something about that phrase stuck with me. The fact that doors help people walk through walls is obvious, I had just never heard it stated before.
Part of a verse fluttered around in mind:
“I am the door,” Jesus said…
John 10:9-10 NKJV- “I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.”
Beautiful verse. I tucked it away in my heart and didn’t think much more, until today.
I was cleaning for a client, and I noticed this “hidden cross” on her laundry room door. The light danced on it in a way that caught my eye, and I began thinking of doors again and walking through walls.
Are there any “walls” that you need to walk through, in your life?
Anything that’s necessary or desirable, but appears equally as impossible, to get through?
Have you been trying to break through those walls of circumstance on your own?
What if there were a door that could help you walk through that wall?
For so many years, I was trained to see the impossible and walk right through it. Take insurmountable goals, break them down into bite-sized chunks and “eat my elephant”, “get-r-done.” But that’s not always Jesus’s way.
If we ask Him…
If we knock on the Door…
He will answer.
In Jeremiah 33:3 God says, “Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.”
If we will just go to Him, He will answer us.
He will show us the way.
He will make a way where there was no way.
He will be the door.
Here is an example of this from my own life. Back in the Spring, my husband and I’s vehicles were both out of commission. It’s too long of a story to share here, but we will just say that this was one of the walls we were facing at the time. And there didn’t seem to be any way through.
I began to reason with my old way of thinking, and started looking for used cars. I also opened up a job-search app, assuming that I was going to have to find a full-time job in order for us both to be able to get vehicles. That’s just what you do, right? Take on more debt? And then work more to try and dig your way out of it?
But I didn’t have peace. Rates were crazy high on vehicle loans. And the job descriptions in the search engine were obviously going to cause me to have to rearrange other priorities— that God had been working on realigning for years. I didn’t want to go right back to where I started— unless that was where God was wanting me to go for this season (which is a possibility- sometimes He does take us back to old places as new people.)
So I prayed. I “knocked on His door.” I asked Him to show me the way. And I kept feeling, in this case, that I was to stay the course. I was to keep my part-time cleaning work, not look for a full-time job. We were to sell our camper. A few days after we listed it, it sold. A God-blessing that gave us the money to pay for my husband’s replacement truck, which God also made available and exactly-affordable in divine timing!
So now we were in need of just one vehicle. “Just” in that sentence makes it seem like a small need, but it really wasn’t. Sharing a vehicle is doable, for sure, but it makes logistics of going to different day jobs and evening groups really difficult. I found myself getting impatient and again, looking up used vehicles and questioning whether I had heard wrong about taking on more work. But I still didn’t have peace about either of those.
Then my mom came to my house one day and said that she wanted to give me her van! I’m pretty sure my jaw hit the floor. I did not see God answering my prayer that way, but what a blessing! It’s old and it’s got its flaws but I don’t even care- it is PERFECT! And every time I drive it I smile, because it was a personal gift of pure grace from both my mom, and my Heavenly Father! And it was a wall that I couldn’t walk through…that He helped me walk through… provided a door for!
Not long after, it became obvious why I wasn’t to search for full-time work. My husband came to a place of needing colon surgery, and I needed to be available as his helpmeet, advocate in the hospital, and caretaker when he came home and was healing. Had I taken on a new full-time job, our finances might have been better, but that’s not what was most important. And I didn’t know this, but God did. And He guided me in the right direction. And now, on the other side of it, He has guided me to accept some more cleaning clients to help with the finances. It’s not that more work is wrong, it’s just that it’s not always the answer – for that time. Now, the work doesn’t feel burdensome or like something I’m taking on because I’m stuck and have no choice. It feels like a blessing to be able to direct my care towards other families that need help, while my husband is at work and my kids are at school; and a blessing to be able to help my husband with the financial load.
Back to that verse again…John 10:9-10 NKJV- “I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. / The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. / I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.”
Listen- these verses can certainly be applied to much more important, vital, and especially eternal situations. But they can also be applied to anything the Holy Spirit shines them as a light on! He cares about everything we go through! He wants to help us through it!
He wants to make a way where there is no way…
Help us walk through walls…
Literally, HE is the door!
HE- coming to Him- is the way through!
The enemy wants you to think you’re stuck – and that you have to do things the world’s way in order to get unstuck. “That’s just the way it is.”
But Jesus has come not just so we might have eternal life, which will be the best! But also so that we can live more abundantly now! Which doesn’t mean that He will make us all rich or give us a life without any hard things or problems. It means that when we do face those things, He will help us through.
Sometimes life closes a window…
Always, Jesus will be an open door. 🚪❤️❤️❤️
(Totally reminds me of that Disney song lyric…
Love is an open door. 🎶 😘)
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