(This is the picture I remember illustrating this verse in my first picture Bible.)
"Behold
I stand at the door and knock." Revelation 3:20
Why
does Jesus not come in? Has He not the power
to enter where He will, to breathe where He chooses, to blow where He
listeth?
Why then
does He stand outside, knocking at the door of a frail human heart?
Could He not
break down that door in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, and annihilate
that opposing barrier?
Yes, but in
so doing, He would annihilate also the man.
What makes me a man is just my power to open the door.
If I had no
power to open or to forebear opening, I would not be responsible.
The Divine
Spirit might then, indeed do with me what He will, but I would not be worth His
possession.
I would be
simply as the unconscious stars which He fills with light, as the blind winds
which He directs on their way.
But if the
stars and the winds had been enough He would never have said, 'Let us make
man.'
He made me
because He meant me to be more than a star.
He made me to respond to Himself, to open on His knocking at the door." - Anthology of Jesus
Look again at the painting of Jesus knocking on that heavy wooden door. There is no door handle for Him to open! Before I knew Him, I did not understand why.
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