Have you ever thought about what it would be like to be blind? Or how much of the world you would miss if you were deaf? Even the senses of smell, taste, or touch open up the world in a great way to every person who have those senses.
Imagine if you were born without sight. You would never see the sun or sunlight. You would never see a tree or any kind of animal or insect. People could tell you all about them and you could feel them or hear or smell them, but no matter: you would never really know what they look like. The problem is you would not have any references to go by. Someone might say the sun is a very bright light, but you never would have seen any light, so you wouldn’t really understand what is even meant by light. ( even with whatever explanation someone might give, there simply would be no point of reference with which to use in order to grasp what they mean.)
Let’s say you could not hear. From birth you had never, ever heard one single sound.
In this case, even if you could see, smell, taste, and had a sense of touch; you still would have no way to know what sound really is. Anyone telling you about sound would really have nothing with which to hinge their explanation to. And they would not even be able to actually speak to you, for you could not hear. The reality is that if you never had any one of these particular senses, you would never really understand what was there that everyone else may be enjoying.
The same is true with any of our five senses. Without taste we would never know what it means to taste. Being born without smell one could not possibly imagine in any appreciable way what it means to smell a rose or even a skunk. Without the sense of touch we might imagine that we should sense something when we got cut or banged into by something. But without feeling, there is just know way of figuring out what it is we might be missing.
Now, imagine someone being born with none of the five senses. Seems to me that it would be pretty much like not being alive. We could not see the world, smell the world, hear the world, taste the world, or feel the world. Would we even know we are in the world? Or, would we have any ideas about anything at all. Everything we learn from childhood is attached in some way to our senses. Without any of these senses would it be possible to learn and understand anything?
Let us imagine that everyone on this planet had no sense of hearing. No one had ever had it, and no one ever could. There would be no stereos or big sound systems for what would be the point, and how could anybody even create such a thing without ever hearing or even ever having some idea that there was such a thing as sound. Machines that we invented would have no need for sound suppression equipment such as mufflers on cars or trucks. It would probably be a very noisy world indeed. But, no one would even notice.
If you will, imagine: “Your hearing ability, is a door to the world. It is a door that goes between your personal selfness and the world.”
All of your other senses could also be considered as doors into the world. Each of these doors open a different reality into your life. These doors, if you will connect you to reality. At least to the reality that exists concerning things of this world. Think of the sense of smell that a dog has ( or many other animals for that matter). Their reality is much different than ours. It is said that many animals have a sense of smell between 5oo and 5000 times better than that of man. It is difficult to imagine what their world is like.
Most people say that seeing is believing. I have heard it said that for many animals, smelling is believing. It is believed that they actually believe their sense of smell better than their sense of sight.
We are indeed fortunate to have these five doors which allow us to pass from our inner world of self to the world upon which we dwell. Without having some particular sense, we would miss much.
What if we are missing a door that we just don’t know about? What if we are missing something which we can not perceive of or have any understanding as to what it is we are missing? Perhaps we are missing some door that would be extremely valuable to our lives? Some door that would open up a new reality in the lives of every person who possessed it.
THE DOOR
This is what I am proclaiming to you today.!! There is another door that will open up a new reality which we cannot access with our other five doors (senses).
What is it? Where does it come from? Is it a good door? What am I missing and what would I have to do to have that door accessible to me?
In John 10:7-10, Jesus said, ”I am the door.” This is the door of which I am speaking.
Jesus Christ is the door to the Kingdom of God. When we receive and believe the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit then abides within that believer. As we abide in the Faith of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit uses this Faith in Christ as a foundation upon which to stand while he reveals the truths of the Kingdom of God. (thereby we see and perceive many things that could not otherwise be understood 1 Cor.2:14). Hence, the door.
In John 10:10, Jesus said ,”The thief comes not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” Not only do we receive salvation, forgiveness of sins, liberty ( from being redeemed from the curse of the Law), but according to Rom. 8:2 we are also made free from the Law of Sin and Death. The Law of Sin and Death was the most powerful Law in the universe until Christ gave his Life and Blood on the Cross. Now the Law of the Spirit of Life in Jesus Christ has made me free from the Law of Sin and Death.
John 10:9, says, ”I am the Door: by Me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.” Pasture carries with it a sense of needs being met and contentment. The real need that we have: “communion with God can only be met in this way.” (through what Christ accomplished on the Cross) When this basic need is met in the life of an individual, contentment gracefully follows. (by Gods Grace) If we do not take up our Cross daily (Luke 9:23) and keep the Cross and what was accomplished thereon before our face continually, it is like having perfectly good eyes but keeping your eyes shut.
If one does not maintain the Cross of Christ as his only object of Faith (always), he will eventually lose sight of the Door.
