An open door - an ancient path...

Some doors may have closed over the past year. Some of them may have just been outside our reach, some open doors we may not have recognized and may not have made use of, others may have been slammed shut in our faces because of other people's actions, reactions, decisions or indecisions. Whatever the case may be, chances are that we experienced some losses. We may even be mourning over the loss of whatever dreams, opportunities or expectations we perceived to be lying beyond those doors. Loss is always painful. Sometimes there are regrets about our own wrong decisions or inactions or whatever the case may be, in the end we need to face the losses and accept that our life's journey has taken a different path than planned. Mostly it means that we have to deal with the loss of our expectations.

Jeremiah 6:16-17 says:

Thus says the Lord,

“Stand by the roads and look; ask for the ancient paths,

Where the good way is; then walk in it,

And you will find rest for your souls.

But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’ AMP

Many of us - if not all of us - are standing at a crossroad with some life decisions.  We are wondering what road to take, what decision we need to make, which direction to go.  The Lord reminds us today that there is an ancient path, a good way that, when we walk in it, we will find rest for our souls.  The choice is ours.  Are we going to take the road He placed before us since before the beginning of time, or are we like Israel of old going to say: "We will not walk in it?"  The road is there, it is not missing or so obscured that we cannot find it.  It's there and the outcome is rest in Christ.  Rest for our souls.  

Let us not hold on to what is behind us, but let us stretch ourselves out to what lies before us.  Let us follow the path He has set before us.    

The year 2022 lies before us, undoubtedly filled with many open doors and opportunities for a myriad of different aspects of our lives. 

Revelation 3:7-8 says:

‘These things says He who is holy, He who is true, “He who has the key of David, He who opens and no one shuts, and shuts and no one opens”: 8 “I know your works. See, I have set before you an open door, and no one can shut it; for you have a little strength, have kept My word, and have not denied My name. NKJ

The Lord encourages us today that He puts before us an open door which leads to the ancient paths.  He gives us opportunities and when He gives them and opens the door, NOBODY - no government decision, no world pandemic, no wrong decision, NOTHING, can rob us of the doors that He opens for us.  Even when we have just a little strength left, let us keep His Word and not deny His name as we step forward through the open door and follow the ancient path He set before us. 

Sometimes it looks like there is no way ahead, but God will make one, in fact He already did.  Let us use every opportunity available to us to walk in His glory to the honour of His Name only.  

He will make a way - Don Moen