as we sat in the church sunday afternoon during the visitation hours for caitlin's mom, dr. don, one of the pastor's at new covenant, pointed out to matt, who was sitting next to me, the doorknob on a stained glass window depicting Jesus knocking at a door. "there's not supposed to be a doorknob there," he said.
the picture in question is from revelation 3, the letter to the church in laodicea. Jesus says,
"[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 eat with him, and he with me"
doc says the doorknob shouldn't be there because it is up to the tenant to open the door, Jesus can't enter without us asking Him in. it's true we must ask Him in, but i wonder if He can't or if He just won't come in until we let Him. i didn't say anything about it, because this is a completely unimportant matter of opinion based on personal interpretation of the Bible, but it got me thinking about the whole doorknob thing. (i guess i should have told you that at the beginning so you could have avoided reading this... oh well.) just as miracles occur when God decides to break the laws of nature that He set into place (or in other words, He can always make axe heads float and multiply a healthy-sized lunch into a feast for thousands, but He chooses to not do that stuff everyday), i don't think God forces us to "love" Him or be in a relationship with Him. instead, i think He allows us to let Him in even though, being God, He could probably get in regardless. to me, love isn't really love unless you had a choice to not love in the first place.
i have heard people say in regards to this verse that God is the perfect gentleman; He will not come in uninvited. i think that's true, no matter how many doorknobs there are.
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