The inside Door

Have you ever been watching a television show or athletic game and have this come on the screen?

" We pardon the interruption but...."

then after the interruption starts, we may go through a meriad of emotions, like…

anger, frustration or fear. The emotions that don’t usually rise to the top are joy, gratefulness or peace.

This happened to me recently as I was watching a basketball game, that I had eagerly been wanting to watch. Right in the middle of the NBA finals, a huge thunderstorm was moving through my area and it had the potential of damage involved with it.

Although, the meteorologist was apologetic, it didn't change his course to warn me and those in my town. He did say several times that he knew the game was on but this was a much more pressing matter.

This brings me to our next door. So far we've looked at the door of the Ark and the Passover Door. I encourage you to go back and read those blogs.

The Temple's Inner Door is what we will focus on in this blog.

After digging in and learning about this door it has taken me to look at the Inner Door of our Heart, not our physical heart, but the inner spiritual heart of a person.

Have you ever thought of your heart having a door associated with it? The bible has a lot to say about the spiritual heart.

The hurts and wounds of life can take up residency in there. That's why it's so important to know what Christ's answers are for these as we attempt to walk through each day not wanting to look at them. Or, even worse, not really knowing what to do with them. We've all had things we experienced in our upbringing that left a mark of some kind of hurt, and as I know from my own life, that hurt can be damaging to me and those around me.

Just like the meteorolist, I think the Holy Spirit wants to interrupt our thoughts with a warning.

The inner door of our heart (inner temple door) is something that we have the ability to open or close.

Ezekiel 36:26

I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.

This verse tells us that if we are in Christ, we've received a new heart and spirit when we opened the door to him and let him in.

This verse is a statement of fact. Not how I feel! I may not feel new or have new thoughts about myself or others, but the fact still remains that I have a NEW HEART.

So, where do I go from this fact to an actual reality in my life?

The first thing I would ask you to look at would be if you have a repeating thought about yourself that might sound like this....

"I'm always a disappointment"

"I should have know better"

"I'm trying to figure out my life"

and the list can go on for days, like this.

These are just a few of the thoughts that I have had to work through in my own life.

Take a good look at the 3 things I’ve just listed - they all start with "I". That is my first issue!

Galatians 2:20 says -

I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

Christ is the end of my "I" that starts and ends a sentence in my mind. This verse tells us that my "I" in now joined to Jesus and we have become "We". What do I mean by we?

I love John 14:20 that tells us that as a Christian we have been placed into Jesus and Jesus is in us. What a wonderful picture of knowing how safe and loved we are. Yes, I've had hurts and wounds in my life. But, now I can turn my attention or mind on my new Heart that Jesus gave me and trust that when I have a thought that wants to take me back to that hurt, I'm not alone there. Do you know how many times Jesus was hurt by others? I don't think we could count it. Jesus was fully man as was he fully God and in his humanness, he had to continually turn to his Father and be in constant reliance that his Father was enough for everything.

Sometimes, we can get stuck in our muck and need a little help to find our way through it. If this is where you keep finding yourself, I encourage you to contact me and set up the classes that I teach. These classes are designed for you to know how to take those hurts and wounds and exchange them for the New Heart. God wants to show you that your inner door is a Person. He is the Door!

The interruption has now become an intervention.

Blessed to walk Life with you!

Dayna