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Topic: Doors (04/05/04)
TITLE: DOORS, A DOOR, THE DOOR By Angela Williams 04/09/04 |
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Jesus also used the idea of the door in his teachings. In St. John 10:9, we find the ‘controversial’ statement “I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.” This is anathema to the new age concept of many paths (doors) leading to the same God. Our Lord went even further. He painted the pastoral scene of a sheepfold with himself as the door. Anyone who attempted to enter the sheepfold except through the door, was described as “a thief and a robber.” We all know what these miscreants do – steal, kill and destroy.
As sheep who know our shepherd, we have to be constantly on our guard against those who will seek to distract us and try to get us to go through another entrance. Many present the scenario of the closed doors where you have to guess what is behind a door and if there is something good you will win it. More often than not, there is nothing behind the doors except illusions. We know where our door is, and what is behind it, Salvation, Freedom and Sustenance. It would be foolhardy of us to, as Jamaicans would say, “give away certain for uncertain.” We have a Shepherd who was prepared to give his life for his sheep. In this season as we remember his death and resurrection, let us resolve to stay in the sheepfold, guided and guarded by our Shepherd, The Door.