Devotion: Open & Closed

April 12, 2012

Today's word or words for the day are OPEN DOORS & CLOSED DOORS. During my own personal devotion yesterday I read a devotional about "Open Doors." It got me thinking about how great open doors are. When doors are open you can walk through with no hesitency, no fear, and you can just walk right on through. With open doors you can get to wherever you need to go. No keys needed, no locksmith, doors wide open for us.

With open doors, we've also had many closed doors. Closed doors stink because we CANT get to where we need or want to go. It stops us from continuing and moving forward, but what it also does in my opinion is it prevents us from going places we weren't meant to go to in the first place.

We have many OPEN DOORS & CLOSED DOORS in our lives. There are times where God says "walk on through" but other times He says "I have something better for you." The question is though, what do we do with those open doors? Are we going to walk right on in or question the opening? These OPEN DOORS are opportunities that God has placed in our lives. Who knows how long or often these opportunities will come, so when we get the opportunity to do what God wants us to do JUMP IN & GO FOR IT! You might be scared or maybe even frustrated that this open door wasn't the door you wanted to go into, but that's the great thing about God, He's going to surprise us (in a good way) every now and then. God's going to take us to places we've never been or imagined going and doing things we've never imagined ourselves doing.

So whatever doors that God opens for you, GO RIGHT IN AND JUMP AT THE OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE GOD. If there are doors that God seems to close, KNOW THAT THERE'S AN OPEN DOOR WAITING FOR YOU. When doors are closed, know that it's God knowing what's best for you!

Ronald D.