Somebody is knocking

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This image has been created many times in a number of ways.  It's a rendition of the quote from the book of Revelation:  3:20  "Here I stand, knocking at the door.  If anyone hears me calling and opens the door, I will enter his house and have supper with him, and he with me."

Look closely at this picture.  What is unique about this door on which Jesus knocks?  

It has no door knob, no handle on the outside!  What does that mean?  That the only way Jesus can get in is for us to open it from the inside.  

This has triggered many a conversation about how Jesus is knocking on our hearts (feel it?  We might say it's our heartbeat!).  Jesus is so respectful of the gift God gave us called free will that he waits for us to invite him to enter!  

Will you open that door for Him today?  What does opening that door look like?

Pope Francis used this same image during his first year as Pope in another way:  He says, "I think about the times in which Jesus knocks from within so that we will let him come out."  

What he means is that we as a Church must go out into the world with the Gospel and be Jesus to others.  

hmmm ... Christ knocking to be let in so He can become a part of us, then knocking so we will let Him enter the rest of the world through us.  That's deep!