Isaiah 22
No one knows the real power of an open door, until they’ve known the pain of captivity.
You and I have a great deal to be thankful for…
This morning as I ponder the power of the One with the key to David’s house, I can’t help but think about some of the greatest open doors in history–
Like the door to Peter’s prison, opened at midnight.
Or the doors an earthquake opened, the night a jailor’s family was saved in Philippi.
Or the door to Bedford Jail that opened only after the world had been given the gift of Pilgrims Progress.
Or the doors of Dachau, with its nearly 40,000 prisoners.
Or the famous gates of Auschwitz, opened 65 years and 5 months ago, this very day…
But as ignominious those prisons, as weighty those doors, and as laureled the liberators that finally moved them off into history, there remain strongholds yet greater…
Prison camps no less destructive, gates no less formidable.
They are otherwise known as selfish hearts…
But glory be to the Father… If we recognize our captivity, we can also know the power of the open door.
“So He shall open, and no one shall shut…” Isaiah 22:22
Isaiah 18
The gardens and vineyards of the kingdom we’re passing through may look promising indeed…
But let us never be distracted or delayed from our journey by the bounty supposedly coming tomorrow.
Another Greater has promised that these vines will never yield. He will personally see to it they don’t. (v.5-6)
And just as surely, the promised pleasures of sin and sinners will never really be. Oh, they will throw all sorts of parties, but they are all empty…
After all, how can the masters of darkness render any joy to anyone when they are strangers to happiness themselves?
Isaiah 17
Isaiah 16
Ahh, angels marvel at it too…
“This is the mystery of mercy into which the angels desire to look– that God can be just while he justifies the repenting sinner and renews His intercourse with the fallen race; that Christ could stoop to raise unnumbered multitudes from the abyss of ruin and clothe them with the spotless garments of His own righteousness to unite with angels who have never fallen and to dwell forever in the presence of God…” GC 145
“In mercy the throne will be established.” Is. 16:5
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