A Prayer for the Door That Was Closed – Your Each day Prayer – April 18

April 19, 2024

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A Prayer for the Door that Was Closed
By Lynette Kittle

“Ask and will probably be given to you; search and you will discover; knock and the door might be opened to you” – Matthew 7:7

If you happen to’ve been round cats a lot, you’ve in all probability observed how they don’t like closed doorways. Cats can have each door in a house opened to them besides one, and will probably be the door they sit in entrance of and plead to be opened, even seemingly devising methods to get by means of it. Nonetheless, earlier than criticizing cats for his or her fixation on a closed door, contemplate human nature. Doesn’t it sound acquainted, like a backyard filled with lavish fruit aside from one forbidden tree? As a substitute of having fun with all the opposite fruit within the backyard, Adam and Eve needed to style fruit from the one and solely off-limits tree.

Once we’re confronted with a closed door, it is likely to be useful for us to think about each Adam and Eve’s story, and perhaps even cats, too, as a result of God generally reveals reality to us by means of them.

What Makes a Closed Door Appear So Irresistible?
Though I didn’t observe Adam and Eve’s reasoning firsthand within the Backyard, I’ve noticed our cat, Panda’s, habits regarding a closed door. She may go into any room in our home besides the storage, but she would sit for hours in entrance of it, meowing on the door and pleading with us to open it for her. Not figuring out how cats suppose, I’m questioning if Panda considered it as an exquisite, mysterious place to go. After all, as a cat, she didn’t possess our information and understanding of the risks it held for a small kitty like herself, similar to sharp instruments, vehicles driving out and in, and escaping into the wild outdoor.

Listening to her sit there for hours crying to undergo the closed door, when she had each different door in the home open to her jogged my memory of myself at occasions. How typically, when the door closes on what we contemplate an important prospect in our lives, whether or not it’s a brand new home, relationship, job, or place, does it turn into the first factor we select to consider, even fixating on it and spending all our time dwelling on it?

Closed Doorways Don’t Imply We Aren’t Cherished

We closed the door to Panda as a result of we love her and wish to shield and preserve her secure. But, when God does the identical for us, it’s typically onerous for us to imagine He loves us. Fairly, we tread by means of emotions of distraught, disappointment, heartache, and hopelessness at shedding a chance. Typically, we even blame God or maintain Him liable for withholding good from us.

However Psalm 84:11 describes how, “For the Lord God is a solar and protect; the Lord bestows favor and honor; no good factor does He withhold from these whose stroll is innocent.”

So maybe, like Panda, at occasions we’re unknowingly asking God to open a door that might result in destruction and trigger extra ache than we will think about. So is it an absence of religion and belief in God to dwell on closed doorways and query His main in our lives? Like we want Panda would belief us and settle for the closed door for her personal good, God needs us to do the identical. As a substitute of letting remorse torment us with the “why nots” of shedding a chance, we should always moderately select to stroll away from closed doorways, trusting His knowledge within the state of affairs, figuring out that He loves us and has higher plans for us.

In going through a closed door, we will select to show and stroll away, believing that if God had needed it for us, it could have opened. And if He didn’t need it opened, then it’s for our good.

God Understands the Significance of Opened and Closed Doorways
God understands, too, the significance of open and closed doorways. In John 10:9, Jesus tells us He’s the door, and whoever enters by means of Him might be saved. So the doorways we enter by means of can have everlasting penalties. As Jesus proclaims in Revelation 3:20, “Right here I’m! I stand on the door and knock. If anybody hears My voice and opens the door, I’ll are available and eat with that individual, and so they with Me.

Let’s pray:

Expensive Father,
Thanks for the closed doorways in my life, as a result of I do know if they’d been in your plans, You’ll have opened them to me. Forgive me for not trusting closed doorways to You and for doubting Your love for me, even at occasions blaming You for my missed alternatives. As effectively, assist me to forgive these I’ve believed closed these doorways, seeing they had been led by You of their decision-making, even when they believed it was their very own doing. Assist me to actually imagine what Genesis 50:20 explains regarding different folks’s actions in the direction of me. “You meant to hurt me, however God meant it for good to perform what’s now being executed, the saving of many lives.”
In Jesus’ title, Amen

Lynette Kittle is married with 4 daughters. She enjoys writing about religion, marriage, parenting, relationships, and life. Her writing has been revealed by Deal with the Household, Choice, At the moment’s Christian Lady, kirkcameron.com, Ungrind.org, StartMarriageRight.com, and extra. She has a M.A. in Communication from Regent College and serves as affiliate producer for Soul Test TV.

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