“BEHOLD, 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.” 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).
“Mother,” said a little girl one day, “if I ask the Lord Jesus to come into my heart, shall I feel Him come in?”
“O, no,” was the answer, “we are not saved by feelings, but through faith. If you ask the Lord Jesus to come into your heart, you must believe that He comes in, because He says, ‘I will come in.’”
The child ran away, and about a quarter of an hour afterwards she came back again, and said joyfully,
“Mother, I have asked the Lord Jesus to come into my heart, and I believe that He has come in.”
The little girl has been a true follower of the Lord Jesus ever since that day.
O, think of these wonderful words of the Lord Jesus (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)), He who came down from heaven to seek and to save the lost. He who suffered, bled and died on Calvary’s cross, the Just One, for us the unjust ones, that He might bring us to God (1 Peter 3:1818For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: (1 Peter 3:18)), and now a Risen, Living, Loving, Saviour stands patiently waiting and knocking at the door of your heart. O, listen to His voice of love and mercy.
“Fling the heart’s door widely open,
Bid Him enter while you may.”
This little girl believed the words of the Lord Jesus, and in simple faith opened the door of her heart, and asked Him to come in. Will you do the same?
How gladly will the Lord Jesus come into your heart when you open the door. Say to Him now,
“O, come to my heart, Lord Jesus, come,
There is room in my heart for Thee.”
Then He will fill your heart with His own love, His own joy, His own peace, His own preciousness. How blessed to have the Lord Jesus Himself thus filling our hearts.
But remember that the Lord Jesus speaks of another door.
“When once the Master of the house has risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and He shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are.” Luke 13:2525When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are: (Luke 13:25).
The Lord Jesus is coming again to take His redeemed ones home to be with Himself for ever in His Father’s house (John 14:1-31Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. 2In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. (John 14:1‑3)), and then He will shut the door of mercy, and those who have shut the door of their heart against Him, will then be shut outside, and will be too late to be saved, and though they will knock, and plead very earnestly, the Lord Jesus will say, “I know you not.”
O, how solemn to be shut out for ever.
ML 08/14/1927