John 10:9
I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved and will
go in and out and find pasture.
John 10:9 is a picture of the life we are to
live as God’s children -- entering in by our Lord, who is the Door, not once
for all, but every day, for everything. Is there trouble in the physical
domain? Enter in by the Door and be saved. Entering in, in the name of Jesus,
is not the condition of daily salvation from sin only, but a salvation that
keeps us manifestly the Lord’s sheep.
In the East, it is the body of the shepherd
himself that is the door of the fold. We are apt to have the idea that
salvation is a kind of watertight compartment, and if we enter in, all our
liberty will be destroyed. That is not our Lord’s conception; He says “he shall
go in and go out.” Are we entering in by the Door for our daily work or only at
a devotional meeting? The going in and out is our Lord’s picture of the freedom
of a son. A servant cannot go in and go out as he likes, but Jesus says, “No
longer do I call you servants… but I have called you friends.” Nothing is
closed to you once you enter in by the Door.
Excerpts from Oswald Chambers
Daily Devotional Bible, Reading 148 (5/28)
From God’s
Workmanship
This photograph is by Jo Chaney.
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