DEVOTION – SATURDAY,
APRIL 28, 2012
“Open the Door’
WITH
AISTAIR
BEGG
What is
your desire this evening? Is it focused on heavenly things? Do you long to
enjoy the high doctrine of eternal love? Do you desire liberty in very close
communion with God? Do you aspire to know the heights and depths and lengths
and breadths of His love? Then you must draw near to Jesus; you must get a
clear sight of Him in His preciousness and completeness: you must view Him in
His work—in His role as prophet, friend, and king—and in His person. He who
understands Christ, receives an anointing from the Holy One, by which He knows
all things. Christ is the great master-key of all the chambers of God: There is
no treasure-house of God that will not open and yield up all its wealth to the
soul that lives near to Jesus.
Are you
saying, "I wish that He would live in my heart and make it His
dwelling-place forever"? Open the door, beloved, and He will come into
your soul. He has been knocking continually in order that you and He may break
bread together. He eats with you because you provide the house or the
heart, and you with Him because He brings the meal. He could not eat
with you if it were not in your heart, you finding the house; nor could you eat
with Him, for you would have an empty table if He did not bring the food with
Him.
Fling wide,
then, the portals of your soul. He will come with that love that you long to
feel; He will come with that joy into which you cannot work your poor depressed
spirit; He will bring the peace that now you do not have; He will come with His
flagons of wine and sweet
apples of love and will cheer you until you have no other sickness but that of
overpowering, divine love. Only open the door to Him, drive out His enemies,
give Him the keys of your heart, and He will live there forever. What wondrous
love that brings such a guest to dwell in such a heart!
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