Which Door Should we Enter?

You’ve heard me mention before that trusting in God is like approaching a closed door. You pray that God’s will be done, and if the door opens you enter. If the door is locked, you accept that it is God’s will for it to be locked. Once through the door, you think you have reached your destination only to find more doors. Behind every open door is another door until finally the door open and reveals the Gates of Heaven.

It can be a bit frustrating constantly bumping into closed doors. Just once you would like to find an open door waiting for you, but even those doors should be approached with caution and prayer. Does God truly desire for you to enter, or is the devil tempting you with a faux door? Considering God said, “Knock and it will be opened to you,” (Luke 11.9) I’m not sure we should ever trust a door that is waiting wide open. How do you trust which door to enter? Take a moment and read today’s passage from Proverbs below, and then ask yourself if you trust your own judgement.

If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if you scoff, you alone will bear it. A foolish woman is noisy; she is wanton and knows no shame. She sits at the door of her house, she takes a seat on the high places of the town, calling to those who pass by, who are going straight on their way, “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” And to him who is without sense she says, “Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.” But he does not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol. – Proverbs 9.12-18

Noah had to enter the door of the Ark to be saved. Once aboard the Ark, he then had to struggle sharing tight quarters with his family and all those animals. I’m sure the Ark wasn’t such a pleasant place to be, better than drowning in the Flood, but not pleasant.

Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth. And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him went into the ark, to escape the waters of the flood. Of clean animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground, two and two, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, as God had commanded Noah. – Genesis 7.6-9

So, you see that God’s way is not always pleasant, but it will always save us. It is one lesson of the Great Fast. It isn’t always pleasant eating bland vegetables but learning to endure the unpleasant will be our salvation as it was for Noah, his family, the animals, and ultimately all of us. As we enter one door another is presented, and sometimes they lead to joy and sometimes they lead to sorrow, but they always lead to another door.

Seek the door that God wants you to enter. Approach the door in fervent prayer and then try the knob. If the door opens God has blessed it for you. Just keep in mind that it might lead to the Ark, but don’t worry the unpleasantness won’t last.