Reading this morning about the
narrow door; that Jesus is the only door that will lead to salvation.
And then listening to a teaching
on “the wall”, the dark night of the soul, those times when God seems
absent. When all of our efforts to draw
close to Him don’t seem to be working. At
these times we tend to make a judgment call about God based on feelings - - -
on our experience - or lack of experience – with God
These are, in fact, opportunities
and times for God’s kindness to bring us deeper into His love, beyond what our
flesh can manufacture.
Every Christian will go through
this, probably multiple times—you’re not doing something wrong.
“God now sees that they have grown a little,
and are becoming strong enough to lay aside their swaddling clothes…so He takes
them down from His arms and teaches them to walk on their own feet; which they
feel to be very strange, for everything seems to be going wrong with them. “ (John of the Cross 1619)
The good news is that we do not struggle alone. God is with us and his grace is sufficient!
Jesus is the door that will take
us through the wall.
