Doors

Life is about going through the doors that are opening and closing the doors which are behind us.  When life is lived as it is intended to be lived, it is not in love with the status quo.  Instead, to live life well is to move toward the unfolding change.  It is only in the letting go of what is behind us that we are able to take hold of the new things of the present and the future.  It is simply impossible to walk forward while looking over our shoulder.   Things change around us.  We change.  The person we are is not the person we were.   

It is not the intent of our Creator for us to stay the same.  It never has been.  When we perceive that we are the same, we have a false sense of comfort because reality points to everything being new each morning, including each one of us.  What we see in all the outward changes which are constantly taking place are surely reminders to. us that change is taking place in the invisible part of our life.  The writing we know as Lamentations reminds us that the steadfast love and unending mercies of God brings something new into our lives each morning.  (Lamentations 3:22-23).  The Apostle Paul wrote about the way everything becomes new within us as we trust in Christ.  (II Corinthians 5:17).  And, of course, everything in creation is changing, almost by the minute, but it is a change we do not see.  No river and no tree is the same today as yesterday and the same is true of every part of Creation including each one of us.   

In the midst of all the change that is unfolding around us and within us, new doors of opportunity are opening.  It goes without saying that walking through the new door means closing the door behind us.  We cannot be there and here at the same time.  God has a way of using the easy and the hard circumstances of our life to bring us to a new day, a new season, and an awareness that He is moving us toward something new.  To go we must take a risk, trust Him, and believe that looking ahead is truly better than looking over our shoulder.