Doors!!!

I am going to be honest, but I can't stand the saying, "where one door closes another door opens."  Uggh.  Someone said that to me yesterday in a conversation and out of nowhere I said this, "but what do you do when you thought the door you just left was the "right" door?  I mean it felt good, had a lot of connections to it, and was fun?  And not only that, but I keep trying to go back and pry it open or kick it open."  I think the truth is we all do one way or another.  I mean, look at the Israelites, given the promise of land flowing with milk and honey, and they wanted to go back to slavery...what is that?  We just want to go back to the good ole days.  What is it about open doors?  Well, the truth of it is we aren't in control and we have no clue what is ahead of us if we walk through that door.  At least, the previous door we had control over and in same ways, it was a good door.  Now, I get it, some of us are glad that door is shut and in fact, it is chained shut never to open again.  But the open door, what will it be like?  I don't know! 

This is where I have been lately in my own life, but there is one promise that keeps coming up within my heart...God is on the other side of that door.  God is always ahead of us.  This is so true for my life and if you take a second to reflect, you will find it to be the truth for you as well.  And He always has the best intentions for us in mind.  Friends, it only gets better and I am believing that more than ever and one of the reasons why I know it gets better is because of eternity with Him.  Now, it may be rough here on earth, but the way things function on earth are not the way things are in eternity.  I long for home more than ever but instead of shutting down and waiting, what a joy it is for me that I can experience the sweet intimacy of Jesus NOW.  What a joy it is to be able to drink Jesus in until my cup is overflowing and then offering another a chance to drink of His sweet love.  Here's the secret, if we make our lives truly about Jesus at all times, then the open door is more of Him.  Each new open door is more of Jesus.  I was convicted yesterday of how I am distrusting the Lord by longing to go back to the previous doors and not move through the new door.  Open it, whatever it may be and look hard and you will see Jesus...He is always ahead of us!!!