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I used to compare myself to others who started in their ministry much earlier than I did. I would look at their websites and well, you know, I would cyber stalk them. Don’t tell me you’ve never done it, you might just choose to call it market research or Facebook browsing. After focusing on what God was doing for them, I would think to myself, “Look what God is doing in their life. Look at their level of influence. They’re living my dream. When is it going to happen for me?” Have you ever felt that way?
Preparation meets opportunity.
Everything we’ve gone through up until this point has been preparation for the next door of opportunity. It’s all about the DOOR and not as much about the opportunity. As God says numerous times in the bible, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock.” God is standing at the door of your heart and He is knocking today.
We often push for things that won’t end well.
We tend to force our way into a situation, where we are pushing for something that God doesn’t want to occur in our life because He knows how it will end. He KNOWS what’s going to happen. Sometimes it might be a good person that has come into our life, but that person wasn’t for us. We tried to make something happen that wasn’t God. At age 18, I pushed my way into eight years of marriage that didn’t work out.
We close doors of opportunity without realizing it.
The bible says, “We look through the glass darkly.” We are basically looking at life through a peephole but God see’s it all! God can look through the door and see 20 years from now. So when we force entry into a situation, we may be closing the door to an opportunity for something HUGE to happen in our life.
1 Corinthians 13:12 says, in the message bible, “We don’t see things clearly. We’re squinting through a fog. We’re peering through a mist, but when the sun shines through bright, we’ll see as God sees.”
Closed doors are to protect us from the paths that are behind them.
When we act like the pushy salesman, trying to push our way in, sometimes God has to shut the door because he has something even better 20 years down the road. We blame God, when actually we are sabotaging ourselves by not waiting on God’s perfect timing.
Celebrate the closed doors as much as the open ones!
I used to curse the closed doors, but now I think we need to be just as excited about the closed doors! We need to realize that if God didn’t open this door, then it must not be our door. Then we wait. We wait with courage. We wait with expectant anticipation. We wait with boldness for the GREAT thing that God is preparing for us!
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