Behind Closed Doors

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Blue Door Delight by Dee Kamp

 

Behind Closed Doors

 

This summer I stood high on a cliff overlooking the vastness of the deep blue sea. I felt at that moment as if a great door slammed shut behind me. I was now separated from the world and all my heartfelt concerns. I was at last alone with God.

 

“Elisha said, “Go around and ask all your neighbors for empty jars.

 Don’t ask for just a few.

Then go inside and shut the door behind you and your sons…”

2 Kings 4:4 NIV

 

The widow had nothing left but one small jar of olive oil and a bit of flour. She was planning to make this her last meal for her and her son. But Elisha the prophet instructed her to go inside and shut the door. Now she could be alone with God and discover the wonders He had in store for her.   

 

Perhaps as the widow filled all those empty jugs over and over  from one impossibly small bottle of oil, she felt her heart being endlessly filled up with the oil of gladness of God’s great love and mercy for her.

 

There are times in our lives when we may find ourselves shut out and separated., shut away from others and the the world as we know it.

 

But take courage! There is no door too big or too strong to shut out God’s love for us. And these are the times shut away from the distractions of the world that He is able to do His most amazing works for us, and in us.  

 

Away and alone with God is the very time we will come into touch with the Divine and the fountain of His love and compassion.

 

 Behind closed doors we discover He is already waiting there for us. Here we find a place to gain new strength and hope for tomorrow. A place set aside where God wants to cut a new pattern for our lives, reveal a new way to go, to heal and display His great mercy and love in new and miraculous ways.

 

“God sometimes shuts the door and shuts us in,

That He may speak, perchance through grief for pain,

And softly, heart to heart, above the din.

May tell some precious thought to us again.”

From: Streams in the Desert

 

“Behind Closed Doors” by Dee Kamp, Grace Every Morning Ministries© November 6, 2013