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My Friend

Have you ever had a good friend, someone with whom you had spent a lot of time with doing various things, but mainly just being good friends? I once had a friend just like that. I could go to that person’s house at just about anytime. When I would knock the door would quickly open. Day or night it just didn’t seem to matter - I was always welcome. We would share everything including our thoughts, desires, hopes and dreams. When we needed to talk, all I had to do was knock on that door and we were there for each other at all times.

One day my friend became involved with a new activity. Gradually over the next few months this person became less accessible. I would talk but my friend’s mind was elsewhere. Before long my friend had become so preoccupied with other thoughts that I could no longer even grab a casual conversation let alone a heart felt talk. The next thing you know I found myself alone at the door knocking but no one seemed to be at home. At first I knocked a lot. I was desperate not to be so entirely locked out. Didn’t my friend know how much we needed each other? After a time, I began to knock less often. It seemed that the door that had once been nothing but a thin veil to be brushed aside as I passed had now become an impassable barrier. I just could not pound or talk my way back through that door.

As difficult as my relationship has been with my friend, I will however, never give up on this friendship of ours. Life has a way of taking what we think is most important and crashing those things to the ground. One day my friend will need me desperately and will crack that door - maybe just a little at first but nevertheless it will begin to open back up and then I will again enter in to that person’s heart.

The Lord is standing by the door of your heart and He is knocking. Jesus needs, wants and desires you to open that door. With more love than you could ever imagine he wants to be with his children. Some say “How could he love those that are bad?” You loved your own when they were bad. Jesus’ love is far above the heavens greater than ours. He loves all his children. The Bible says that he knew us before the world was formed and yet He still created it. We were all His creations and He knows what each of us is really capable of being like. It is us who chooses not to be like that. That doesn’t change the love that He has for each and every one of us though. He will continue to knock on our doors until the very end.

He is waiting as long as he can so that none should perish. The end will come, however, and it will not be that long before its arrival. I believe He has a heartache for all that may die apart from Him. Christmas is always a great reminder of the greatest gift that was ever given. He was born to die for you that you may have the gift of eternal life.

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 (Revelation 3:20).

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance (2 Peter 3:9).

Your Decision to Receive Christ as Your Savior:

Confess to God that you are a sinner. Believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for your sins on the cross and was raised for your justification. Receive and Confess Him as your personal Savior.

Assurance As a Believer:

That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved (Romans 10:9).

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