Yesterday afternoon I inadvertently discovered our doorbell was not working. I wondered how long it had been dead. Who came only to think we were not home or worse that we were hiding from them? (Well, maybe that isn’t so bad. There are some people I would hide from.) Doorbells, the electronic equivalent of knocking, are important. If Revelation 3 were being written today it would most likely read, “Behold I stand at the door and ring.” I love what follows, “Open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.”
It is important to note who is ringing. Jesus is coming to us. It is the great difference between Christianity and all other religions. Other religions have humans in pursuit of God. Christianity’s uniqueness is God is in pursuit of humans. Right from the beginning we were God’s idea. “Let’s make man in our image.” When Adam and Eve failed it was Jesus who immediately announced the plan for restoration. It was the Father who sent His only Son. It was Jesus who cried out, “It is finished.” It was Jesus who assured us “I will come so you can be with me.”
Don’t you just love being a Christian? The work, the forgiveness, the justification is God coming to us with incomprehensible love. The cross was not Pilate’s idea nor the Sanhedrin’s. The cross was thought of prior to creation itself. We have always been His project. No, not project. Children. That’s much more like it. He’s ringing.
Written by Roger Bothwell on April 19, 2013
Spring of Life Ministry, PO Box 124, St. Helena, CA 94574
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