JESUS IS AT THE DOOR

What's your understanding of Revelation 3:20? I have heard the opening text used severally during evangelistic sermons while trying to win souls. However, the context shows that Jesus was referring to a church( believers) in Asia Minor. He was not knocking at the door of unbelievers but believers who were lukewarm. Why was he knocking on the door of their hearts? He knocked on the door of their hearts because He wanted to eat with them. Does he eat human meals? In his incarnation, he ate food made by humans but now in his glorified state (resurrected body), he doesn't eat human meals. What food was implied in the text above? It is fellowship. This word is not limited to what we do when we come together. It refers to the depth of our closeness with the father. A communion.

Now that you're born again, it is possible that Jesus may be knocking on the door of your heart for deeper fellowship. That's His food. Fellowship is all about intimacy. Whenever I want to illustrate what fellowship is, I often use my paternal uncles as example. My uncles have similar voices. Most times, strangers find it hard to identify who is talking because almost all of them sound alike. However, if they're all talking at once, I can identify my dad's voice and the identities of each of them. This is possible for me because over the years, I've fellowshipped with my dad to the point where I don't need to see his face to identify him. Once I hear his voice, that's all I need because I'm fully acquainted with His voice. "Your inability to identify God's voice/leading is a pointer to a weak fellowship with him". Often, people have asked to know how to be sure of God's voice. They're looking for a quick formula to what they ought to learn by Fellowship. You cannot discern His voice if you're not intimately connected to Him.

The Christian journey should be progressive and not static. We are meant to be so close to God in a way that our lives would be enwrapped in him totally. There is a realm higher than where you're operating. Jesus is knocking on the door of your heart, saying: "I want to eat with you." You cannot exhaust the several dimensions in God, the more you know him, the more you'll discover so many things yet unknown about him. I think that was the reason why Paul said, "That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;"(Phil3:10). Paul was already a great Apostle with great depths of revelations, yet fellowship was his desire. This is not the time for casual Christianity; fellowship is not limited to what you do when you pray or study the bible. It is the consciousness of God that you carry around everywhere knowing that you can be in touch with him anytime. Our desire should be to know Him more.