The Door
DAY 13 WRITTEN BY: TRE WIGGINS-
John 10:7-9
So Jesus again said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.
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Jesus says something similar to the passage above in John 14:6. He said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the Father except by Me.” What Jesus makes plain is that He is the one who makes spiritual life possible. The difficulty in coming to grips with a statement like this is that there is no other way. No amount of good works or trying hard to obtain righteousness will ever make someone sufficient to gain what does not belong to them. See, both Jonah and the Psalms attest to the fact that “salvation belongs to the Lord.”
The one to whom something belongs gets to make determinations about who receives what they have. If salvation belongs to God, and it does, that means He’s the one who gets the say over how it is to be given to others and how they are to receive it. Jesus is how salvation was given to us, namely through His work on the cross. We receive it by grace through faith in Him.
In fact, because Jesus is the only way to salvation, many miss it because they think they can obtain it in other ways. This is why Jesus is a stumbling block to some and the cornerstone to others (Acts 4:11). There is only one foundation that can be laid, and it is Jesus (1 Cor. 3:11). To build on any other foundation will be in vain. He is the only way to eternal bliss in the presence of God.
The wonderful thing about these truths is that Jesus invites us to enter freely by Him! Revelation 3:20 tells us as much: “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.”
Friend, do you believe Jesus is the only way to heaven? Then tell somebody about Him today. They enter by Him, or they don’t enter at all. God desires that the grace He showed to you might be shown to others by your witness
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Father, give me an opportunity today to share Christ with someone that I encounter. Give me the eyes to see the opportunity and the courage to take it!
