4月28日
标 题： 耶稣是你的门
经 节： 我就是门；凡从我进来的，必然得救，并且出入得草吃。（约翰福音十章9节）
身为基督徒，我们认为神“打开门”是显明祂旨意的其中一个方式。我们要求神巧妙地策划我们的环境，好得着自己认为最好的情况。问题是我们误解门的意义。耶稣说祂是门，与环境毫不相关，因为没有一个人能够关掉耶稣所开的门（启示录三：8）。如果你已经以活动代替与神的关系，环境会使你的活动陷入混乱。当你的活动受阻，你可能会以为这道门被关闭。然而，基督是你生命之门，祂会指引你去体验祂要你经历的事。没有任何人可以阻止祂。
当保罗与西拉在腓立比被打下监狱，他们在希腊事工的门，似乎会在暴力中被紧紧关闭（使徒行传十六：22～24）。然而，他们真实的处境是主为他们开了一扇门，向过去难以接触的监狱囚犯传福音。这位腓立比狱卒和他的全家，成为腓立比新教会的重要核心份子。从人类的角度来看，一扇门关了；从神的角度来看，却是保罗与西拉正确地在神要他们去的地方传福音。
当人们敌对我们，我们可能会变得失去勇气，或者是担心其他人会怎么对付我们。我们可能想要靠自己的双手，去完成自己认为神所交付的使命。这显露出我们并不是真的相信耶稣是生命的门。如果真的相信，我们会确信自己借着基督，可以完成所有祂交付的使命。
Jesus Is Your Door
“I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will
go in and out and find pasture.” (John 10:9)
As Christians, we talk about God “opening doors” to us as a means of His
revealing His will. What we are asking God to do is engineer our circumstances
to match what we think would be best. The problem is that we misunderstand what
the door is. Jesus said He is the door. Circumstances are irrelevant, for no
one can shut the door that Jesus opens (Rev. 3:8). If you have substituted
activity for your relationship with Christ, then circumstances can disrupt your
activity. When the activity is hindered, you may assume the door has been
closed. Yet, if Christ is the door in your life, He will guide you into every
experience of Him that He wants, and there will be nothing that people can do
to stop Him.
When Paul and Silas were thrown into prison at Philippi, it appeared
that the door to their ministry in Greece had been violently and firmly closed
(Acts 16:22–24). The reality of their situation, however, was that their Lord
had opened a door of ministry to a previously unreached group of men in prison.
The Philippian jailer and his household would become a significant nucleus of
the new church in Philippi. From a human perspective, a door had been closed;
from God’s perspective, Paul and Silas continued to minister exactly where God
wanted them to.
When people oppose us, we can become discouraged or worry about what
others are doing to us. We may even try to take matters into our own hands to
accomplish what we think God wants. This reveals that we do not really believe
Jesus is the door for our lives. If we did, we would be assured that through
Christ we have access to everything He wants to do in and through us.
