Open Doors

Exodus 12:1-7  While the Israelites were still in the land of Egypt, the Lord gave the following instructions to Moses and Aaron: 2 “From now on, this month will be the first month of the year for you. 3 Announce to the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each family must choose a lamb or a young goat for a sacrifice, one animal for each household. 4 If a family is too small to eat a whole animal, let them share with another family in the neighborhood. Divide the animal according to the size of each family and how much they can eat. 5 The animal you select must be a one-year-old male, either a sheep or a goat, with no defects.  6 “Take special care of this chosen animal until the evening of the fourteenth day of this first month. Then the whole assembly of the community of Israel must slaughter their lamb or young goat at twilight. 7 They are to take some of the blood and smear it on the sides and top of the door frames of the houses where they eat the animal.  (The need for a sacrifice-a shadow of what was to come)

Revelation 3:20  Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.  (Our acceptance of the sacrifice)

Ephesians 3:17a  Then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him.   (Christ's response to our acceptance)

Hebrews 7:26-27  26 He is the kind of high priest we need because he is holy and blameless, unstained by sin. He has been set apart from sinners and has been given the highest place of honor in heaven. 27 Unlike those other high priests, he does not need to offer sacrifices every day. They did this for their own sins first and then for the sins of the people. But Jesus did this once for all when he offered himself as the sacrifice for the people’s sins.  (Jesus alone is the perfect sacrifice, our eternal high priest)

Hebrews 4:14-16  14 So then, since we have a great High Priest who has entered heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to what we believe. 15 This High Priest of ours understands our weaknesses, for he faced all of the same testings we do, yet he did not sin. 16 So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most.  (Results!)

Open doors.  We open the door to Jesus by accepting His sacrifice, applying His shed blood to the doors of our heart,  He comes in and abides with us and the door to God's throne is made wide open.  It's all connected!  It's all amazing!  And it's all because of Jesus. 

This is one of the things I love about the Holy Spirit.  It starts with one verse and then other verses start exploding in my head....the connections form and the Lord completes the picture of His love, salvation and grace.  Amazing!  This is what comes from being in God's Word, we understand more, we see more and we grow more.  We see more reasons to be thankful, more reasons to worship. 

I am so eternally grateful for and I stand in awe of Your salvation.  Your ways amaze and thrill me when I see them hooked together.  Looking back through the millennia to the first Passover, to the final sacrificial Lamb Jesus Christ and know that You planned all along the way to salvation...the way for me to be saved, like the Word tells us before the beginning of the world, Jesus was to be our ransom.  (I Peter 1:20).  Before the beginning of the world You chose to save us (Ephesians 1:4).  A simple thank You never feels like enough.  There is none like You! 

Think about these Scriptures!