CHOOSING A DOOR
Revelation 3:8
"Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut."
I've always been an outdoorsman. I've loved anything and everything about the outdoors and hunting. -Well maybe everything except poison ivy and poisonous snakes...) I've had awesome opportunities in and because of my love for the outdoors.
I once traveled 8 hours for a job interview with the National Rifle Association. I believed with my passion for all shooting sports God had opened the perfect door for me. I was called back for a final interview 12 hours away in St Louis, Missouri. I thought for sure that with only two of us left in the running, this was my open door. A week later that door slammed closed when I learned the job was given to the other applicant. After a year or so I learned that the job was keeping the other applicant away from his family 5-6 days a week... that closed door became a great blessing.
In our lives there are many doors that open and close and we have to make the right choices. When a door has closed, I've learned that kicking it back open costs us a cost that we can't afford. It's a hard lesson the learn.
A door is a passageway leading from one place to another. We are generally the product of the doors we chose to walk through in our past. Doors have made us the person we have become now. A door will represent a change or transition in our lives. Often the doors set in front of us are a symbol of a new beginning. Choosing the right doors to walk through in life is something that will carry with us until we leave this earth.
Quite often closed doors serve to redirect us for a greater purpose in our life. God will close doors to bring us to the doors He intends to open for our benefit and the benefit of others and ultimately for His glory.
But what happens when God leads to a place where you have more than one door open in front of us? Both doors hold a godly opportunity, so how do we choose?
Most of us struggle with making simple decisions in life... where to go for dinner, soup or salad, steak or chicken etc. We fear that we will make a bad choice and have to live with the consequences of most decisions in life.
In a weird way, we do about the same thing with in our decisions with God. We're afraid of making a bad decision, we lay all of our choices at God's feet hoping He will point a finger at the right choice. We ask Him, "What is Your will for my life?"
However, what happens if God's will for us is that we work out the wisdom and discernment to make our own choices and decisions in light of His Word, and the faith and confidence to know He will be there guiding us regardless of which path we choose?
This is how we deal with two open doors in life. We trust God and we realize that He has our best interest in mind, at all times. We speak to Him regularly, we read our Bible continually and we surround ourselves with Godly men and women and seek their council... then we listen to them. If we live this out with confidence, God will always be there guiding us to and through the next open door in life and occasionally stopping us with a closed door.
Jeremiah 29:11 doesn't tell what choices to make. No, it tells us that when we trust Him, He has a plan that will work out to our benefit and to His glory.
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11
Choose a door and walk through boldly.
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