The children were putting up signs on their bedroom doors. One was a printed sign from the dime store. It was made of red cardboard and said: “PRIVATE PROPERTY. KEEP OUT!” Another sign was written with pencil on white paper, and it said: “DO NOT ENTER WITHOUT KNOCKING.” Another sign simply said: “THE GIRLS’ ROOM.”
When little Joe saw the other children making their signs, he said, “Mommy, I want to make a sign, too.”
“What do you want your sign to say?” she asked.
“I want it to say, ‘YOU MAY COME IN ANYTIME YOU WANT TO.’ "
Wasn’t that a nice, friendly sign? Signs like these show us the feelings that different boys and girls (and adults, too) have toward others and toward God. Some people seem to be wearing a sign that says, “KEEP OUT. PRIVATE. MY HEART IS MY OWN TO DO WITH AS I PLEASE.” They forget that God made them and that they must answer to Him for everything they think and do.
Others keep the Lord Jesus knocking on their door while they are trying to clean things up inside. They forget that to be happy in God’s presence their sins must be washed away. Only God’s Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, can do that. If any one will come to Him as a sinner, He will wash all their sins away. The blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, which was shed on the cross, can make all who believe in Him clean and white.
He is knocking at your heart’s door right now. Won’t you let Him in? He loves you and would like you to answer His knock with little Joe’s sign — “COME IN ANYTIME!”
“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 [eat] with him, and he with Me.” Revelation 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).
ML-12/18/1988