The other day I saw an image in my mind that I want to share with you:
I enter a large dark room. In the room there are a lot of doors. On each door it says what's on the other side of the door. I can see a few of my friends' names on some of the doors. Others say work, family, Netflix, sports, social media and generally all the things I do during the day. In the center of the room is a door that says "Jesus".
Now I'm free to choose which doors I want to knock on, but is the door to Jesus the first one I choose?
At many doors in the room, I have to stand and wait before they open for me. Jesus' door is always opened immediately when I knock. Despite this, that door is not my first choice...
"Knock, and the door will be opened to you." - Matthew 7:7
Persecuted Christians depend on responding to this Bible verse. Addicted to knocking on Jesus' door. The loving and caring embrace they receive from Jesus when he immediately opens the door can be vital for the persecuted Christian. If a persecuted Christian stepped into the fictional space I described, they would somehow have to knock on Jesus' door. There may be so many uncertainties and hardships in their lives that they have to put their hope in Jesus.
We don't face uncertainties and hardships in the same way, so we're not as dependent on knocking on Jesus' door as the persecuted Christians are.
Or are we? Do we need a loving hug from Jesus as much as the persecuted Christians? If so, why don't we knock on his door first?
To get to the bottom of that question, we can look inside ourselves, look at our lives, look at the lives of persecuted Christians, but most of all, look at Jesus! The one who is always ready to open the door for you. The question that now remains is:
Which door will you knock on today?
Benjamin Schultz Laursen is employed as a "give a year" employee in Danish European MissionÂ
