I Stand

November 29

Our God is good at painting word pictures. His Holy Book, the Bible, gives us clear pictures of major events of the past, and impresses us with its insights into current times, as well as shares with us its vivid imagery to portray what will occur in the future.

We feel like we were there when the Israelites crossed the Red Sea (Exodus 14:16). We feel like we overheard the conversation that transpired between the heroic Queen Esther and her husband King Ahasuerus that caused the astounded Jew-hater Haman to be snared by his diabolic scheme against God’s people (Esther 7:4-10).

We feel like we can hear the thundering hooves of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse as they bring destruction and death to the earth in the last days of time (Revelation 6:2-8), and we know that our own day is equally depicted in the scripture, for as we read, we see ourselves and our time graphically portrayed. But the one great truth He would have all mankind to see and to appropriate is that spoken by Jesus to those who will hear.

What our God and Savior wants us to see clearly, to grasp with our understanding and appropriate to our hearts is the picture of Revelation 3:20 where Jesus says, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If any man hear My voice and open the door, I will come in to him and sup with him and he with Me.” Our loving Savior wants us to know that He, like a gentleman, stands at the door of our heart, the throne room of our lives, waiting to be seated there as our Savior, Lord and King.