Learning to Lovewell: W3 - WED
The Door is Open
Revelation 3:20 (NLT) “Look! I stand at the door and knock. If you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in, and we will share a meal together as friends.”
Here’s one of the most tender images in all of Scripture: God standing at the door, knocking. Not breaking it down. Not demanding entry. Not threatening consequences if you don’t answer quickly enough. Just knocking. Waiting. Inviting.
This is who God is. The One who makes the first move. The One who initiates. The One who seeks relationship before we even think to seek Him.
Maybe you’ve been waiting for the courage to approach God. Maybe you’ve been thinking, “I’ll reach out to Him when I get my life together. When I stop struggling with this sin. When I’m finally good enough to deserve His attention.” But Jesus is already at the door. Already knocking. Already inviting you in, mess and all.
Notice what He promises: “We will share a meal together as friends.” In Jesus’ culture, sharing a meal was the ultimate sign of friendship and intimacy. You didn’t eat with enemies or strangers. You ate with people you trusted, people you enjoyed, people you wanted to know deeply.
God doesn’t want to inspect you from a distance. God doesn’t want to give you a list of improvements and send you away to work on them alone. God wants to pull up a chair, pour you a drink, and share life with you. God wants conversation and laughter and the comfortable silence that happens between friends who truly know each other.
But here’s the beautiful and sometimes difficult truth: God won’t force His way in. The door only opens from the inside. Not because God is playing games or testing you, but because real friendship requires choice. God wants you to want Him. God invites, pursues, and waits, but never coerces.
Think about the doors in your life that might be closed to God right now. Maybe it’s shame that’s keeping you from opening. Maybe it’s anger or disappointment with how life has turned out. Maybe it’s just the busyness of keeping up appearances, the exhaustion of trying to be good enough on your own.
Whatever it is, know this: God is still knocking. Still inviting. Still offering the kind of friendship your soul was created for. And the door can open today.
Revelation 3:20 (NLT) “Look! I stand at the door and knock. If you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in, and we will share a meal together as friends.”
Here’s one of the most tender images in all of Scripture: God standing at the door, knocking. Not breaking it down. Not demanding entry. Not threatening consequences if you don’t answer quickly enough. Just knocking. Waiting. Inviting.
This is who God is. The One who makes the first move. The One who initiates. The One who seeks relationship before we even think to seek Him.
Maybe you’ve been waiting for the courage to approach God. Maybe you’ve been thinking, “I’ll reach out to Him when I get my life together. When I stop struggling with this sin. When I’m finally good enough to deserve His attention.” But Jesus is already at the door. Already knocking. Already inviting you in, mess and all.
Notice what He promises: “We will share a meal together as friends.” In Jesus’ culture, sharing a meal was the ultimate sign of friendship and intimacy. You didn’t eat with enemies or strangers. You ate with people you trusted, people you enjoyed, people you wanted to know deeply.
God doesn’t want to inspect you from a distance. God doesn’t want to give you a list of improvements and send you away to work on them alone. God wants to pull up a chair, pour you a drink, and share life with you. God wants conversation and laughter and the comfortable silence that happens between friends who truly know each other.
But here’s the beautiful and sometimes difficult truth: God won’t force His way in. The door only opens from the inside. Not because God is playing games or testing you, but because real friendship requires choice. God wants you to want Him. God invites, pursues, and waits, but never coerces.
Think about the doors in your life that might be closed to God right now. Maybe it’s shame that’s keeping you from opening. Maybe it’s anger or disappointment with how life has turned out. Maybe it’s just the busyness of keeping up appearances, the exhaustion of trying to be good enough on your own.
Whatever it is, know this: God is still knocking. Still inviting. Still offering the kind of friendship your soul was created for. And the door can open today.
- What “doors” in your life might be closed to God right now?
- What would it take for you to open them and let Him in?
- How does it change things to know that God is waiting for your invitation, not your perfection?
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