Every door has a key and I’ve just found ours.
If you do what is
right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is
crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it. ~ Genesis 4:7
I can’t believe it’s been a year and a half since God
opened my eyes to how this verse applied to a situation in my life. Because this scripture had been marked in my
brain as a reminder about maintaining control, I didn’t realize God was talking
to me again about a current situation when this verse began to play like a tape
in my mind.
Over the past several months, Brad and I have been
praying and believing for God to move mightily in our lives. Our prayer: Close all the wrong doors so no
man or spirit may open them and open the right door so no man or spirit may
close it. After months of frustration
and listening to a friend’s testimony, I began to realize that God had been “closing
all the wrong doors,” just as we’d asked.
So we began to thank Him that He’d already opened the “right” door and
asked Him to lead us to it.
I ran into a friend the other day who said, “You must be
missing something.” I was so frustrated
at that comment…but God revealed to me tonight that he was right and that “something”
was huge to God. Our actions and our
words can define us. If we are not
careful, sin will master our lives, cutting off the hand of God to bless
us. But as I discovered tonight through
talking with God, we can master sin and don’t have to be mastered by it.
We’ve wanted God to shut all the wrong doors and open the
right one. Every door has a key and I’ve
just found ours.
