It so easy to thank and praise God for the open doors. As we consider those doors favor or an opportunity that we know only he could have done.
BUT……….
What about the doors that God chooses to close?
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Aleander Graham Bell
We confess it with out our mouth, but do we really and truely believe that? If we sincerely believed that, why is to so hard to move forward?
Sometimes we can’t even see the opened door because we are so focused on the door that has closed. Normally it happens suddenly, out of no where and in most cases at the time that it can’t be explained. When we become emotionally attached, phsycially bond, spiritually connected to certain things and or people when that season has ended it is hard to close that door because we are still attached.
Times will pass and seasons will come and go
Roy Bean
Reason for closed doors:
- Season Ends
- God has something better
- We won’t do it
- We opened the wrong door
- Not recognizing the reason for the opened door (misused the purpose)
- Protection
Through life experiences I have realized that their were a lot of doors that needed to be closed, because it would have caused destruction in my life. There were some doors I should have left closed and because I failed to listen to God it wreaked havoc in my life. Some doors are also seasonal, but because of our attachment to the season we miss it or in most cases ignore the signs that the seasons have passed. Some doors God has to physically close for us because we won’t do it. Those are normally the ones that close in what seems unexpectedly.
When you know the signifigance of a closed door, you wouldn’t be so distraught over the ones that do. protection + purpose = better
It makes me appreciate the open doors, but I have even more appreciation for the closed ones. It is in those that I know God is looking out for me. As painful as it can sometimes be, it was a blessing in disguise. What turns out to initally look like a bad thing, actually turned out to be good one.
“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose”
Romans 8:28
I am so grateful for all of the open doors and continued doors that he allows in my life. Favor and opportunities that had he not granted them to me I would have not made it this far. I would diffently not be where I am today. But, when I begin to think about all the doors God closed on my behalf I get happy. Just think about all the doors that have been closed on your behalf that you know nothing about. I am thankful for his grace, but I am also grateful for his mercy.
SONG LIST:
“For Every Mountain” Amber Bullock
In every story book there is a beginning and there is an end. In every story there is usually more than one chapter and with every chapter one is ending and a new one begins; however, there are times when the next chapter will be continous from the previous chapter, but yet no two chapters are ever the same. There are some chapters that you may experience the joys and sorrows, the heartaches and pains. It will sometimes make you happy, laugh or cry and at times you may become angry. No matter the roller coaster of emotions you may experience through out the story if it is something that has grabbed your attention normally by the end of the story you would say, “Now that was a good book”. The only difference in the books that we read and our life story is that it’s true and we are the author of what we write. Have you ever been reading a book that the chapter (s) were so good that you had to go back and read it again? Or maybe it made you feel some kinda way, maybe you lost interest and were unable to move past where you were. We can become this way in life that we become stuck at the beginning and we are unable to make it to the end. We can tend to focus only on the bad things with in our life story that we forgot about all the good things that have happened or we have experienced that should be able to give us lasting memories,but we allow our worst days to be what’s lasting in our thoughts. God has so much more in store for us if we we could only change our frame of mind. As we continually grow and if we are wise we are able to continually build upon each one and turn our chapters around. Everyone may not know the details of our story but they will be able to see it through our lives. Though that chapter in your life has ended new life is beginning and the story continues. As you began again flip the page “WHAT’S COMING IS BETTER”
NEW LIFE 