Shelley’s mother had given her a pretty text card and upon it were the words: “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will come into him, and will sup with him, and he with Me.” Rev. 3:2020Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. (Revelation 3:20)
Shelley thought a great deal about that verse and asked her mother some questions as to its meaning. When she went to bed that night she took the card with her to her room.
In the morning she said, “Mother, I lay awake a long time last night, thinking of Jesus outside the door. And, Mother, I prayed to Him, oh so earnestly, that He would come into my heart and stay there always. And, Mother, I believe He has come in, and I am going to be His little girl.”
Little Shelley opened the door of her heart at the knock of the Lord Jesus, and we are sure that she was right in thinking that He had entered, for He says, “If any man (any means any one, young or old) open the door, I will come in.”
ML-03/18/1979