I HEAR THE LORD SAYING: “LOOK FOR THE LITTLE DOORS”
The Lord has been talking to me a lot about little doors, or more accurately, doors within doors.
You would have heard that scripture where Jesus tells the disciples that it “would be easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of Heaven”. (Matt 19)
This idea of the small door, often called the eye, came alive when we were in Jerusalem and I got to see an original door with the eye…which is the name for a smaller door within it! (See picture below)
That scripture makes a lot more sense when you understand that is what the Lord was talking about- that the eye was also a word to describe a small door within a bigger door. I want to share a little more what I feel the Lord has been revealing to me…
The “eye” – was a smaller door within a door that allowed people to enter a city at night quickly without opening the larger doors into a fortified city. At a certain time of night, it was safer for the city if the bigger doors remained shut to prevent an onslaught or attack. So if merchants arrived late at night and the doors were closed, they could still enter via the smaller door.
What does this all mean?
You don’t always need a big door to enter a new place. Maybe you’re looking for the wrong opportunity and can’t see the smaller opportunity inside it.
Doors will be open to you depending on what season it is. If you look for the big door in the night season it won’t open and you could make the mistake that the city of possibilities is closed to you. It isn’t, you’re just looking for the wrong door! Are you in a night season? Don’t feel a door is closed- look for a smaller door!
Small doors only allow one person in. You can’t take in all your stuff. What are You carrying that needs to be laid down so you can enter that narrow door?
So – what about that camel- could he enter even though difficult? Yes, but he would need to stoop down to be able to get inside. Just like us, when we humble ourselves we are able to enter doors that seem impossible to enter.
Camels also represent providence. Don’t worry, when it’s time to enter those smaller doors, you will be provided for. You will not lose that which God has given you, even though those doors seem small and insignificant- providence will also go with you!
Finally, that small door is there to protect you once you enter. Sometimes big doors are closed to you for your protection. Don’t look at a closed door as something to keep you out, but rather keep you safe once you’re inside!
Does something seem closed to you? Look again. What small door could you walk through today?
They ran to the groceries, they filled up their carts, They emptied the Tops and Price Chopper and Walmart, They panicked and fought and then panicked some more, Then they rushed to their homes and they locked all the doors.
The food will be gone! The milk eggs and cheese! The yogurt! The apples! The green beans and peas! The stores have run out, now what will we do? They’ll be starving and looting and nothing to do!
Then they paused, and they listened a moment or two. And they did hear a sound, rising over the fear, It started out far, then began to grow near.
But this sound wasn’t sad, nor was it new, The farms were still doing what farms always do.
The food was still coming, though they’d emptied the shelves, The farms kept it coming, though they struggled themselves,
Though the cities had forgotten from where their food came, The farms made them food every day, just the same. Through weather and critics and markets that fall, The farms kept on farming in spite of it all.
They farmed without thank yous. They farmed without praise. They farmed on the hottest and coldest of days.
They’d bought all the food, yet the next day came more, And the people thought of something they hadn’t before. Maybe food, they thought, doesn’t come from a store. Maybe farmers, perhaps, mean a little bit more. ❤️
Momentary Lapse Of Sanity 