For as long as I can remember, I have been opposed to being “put in a box”. When people try to stop me, shut down my expression or keep me from an adventure, I get on edge. Energy builds up in me, ready to burst and break down any barrier in my way.
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
Matthew 7:7-12
So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.”
Life comes with closed doors. Sometimes, it seems as though all the doors are closed. As an energetic performer, my natural tendency is to charge, shoulder down, like a swat team. I truly despise being slowed down. And yet, Jesus here asks us to “knock” on doors. As an addict, I have had to learn to recognize doors for what they are. Some doors are meant to be opened as soon as possible. Some need to be picked. Some knocked down. But others are doors that can only be opened from the other side. “At just the right time” Jesus will open those doors for you. In this way, all doors are doors that Jesus must open. For they all have their right time. Do you have the patience to wait for the barriers between you and recovery to be swung out of the way?
Our impatience is a product of the way we think about God. Maybe we don’t believe that God can open the doors. Maybe we don’t believe He wants to. Whatever the case, we would do well to remember that God is a good Father, who makes us wait for our own benefit, and opens doors in His perfect time. What doors stand before you right now that you cannot open on your own? Will you wait?