Day 8 - Choices, The Door - More of Jesus Devotional

Choices – The Door

Zema Chambers

Our politics . . . our friends . . . our schools . . . our church. We make choices every day. Now of course, choices are what make us the liberty lovin' people we are! Nobody can tell us what to do. Consider driving down a one way road going the wrong way. Most of us wouldn't hang our head out the window and shout, "Make me go that other way. I dare ya!" Sometimes we know there are battles we know better than to fight. Life is full of choices.

How curious it is when those same conditions come in our walk of faith. We live with very clear "yes and no" situations all the time. What is it about Jesus that would be different? Did He say He was "yes and maybe"? How about "I am the Alpha and the Most of the Time"? Jesus was very clear in who He is.

Jesus can be known and already has been known by countless numbers of people through the ages. The Bible calls them a "great cloud of witnesses" in the book of Hebrews. Is coming to know Jesus really that clear? Yes! What about people who say He's too hard and there are just too many demands? God, in His kindness, ushers us to the door of salvation on this carpet ride called "grace". It still stops at Jesus. A choice must be made. Does the person, face to face with Jesus, really believe? That's where God makes the determination - not you and me. (I like it that way actually.) The step to Jesus is a faith venture. Grace gets us there; the step toward Jesus opens the door. No vast shopping choices there. No difficult demands about perfection. “Whosoever will, may come!”

Jesus is waiting. He is the Door through which we walk for salvation. (John 10:9) I once heard a preacher say, “On one side over the door it says, "Whosoever will may come!" After we go through and look back we see, "Chosen from the

foundations of the world!" He always knew we'd come. Thankfully, we don't have to pick from fifteen different salvation options. There is only one Lord, one Faith and one Way. Choose the Door. This is a battle Jesus has already won!

Questions:

What irritates you about having only once choice?

How did you come to be convinced you that Jesus is only way?

When did you decide to open the door to Jesus?