Keys to the Storehouse – Knock! Knock! Knock!

With all of the distractions that are drawing our attention, it is very hard for many to be aware that Somebody is knocking at the door. “Behold, I stand at the door and knock.” Revelation 3:20.

What are these knocks?

  • “Every warning, reproof, and entreaty in the word of God, or through his delegated messengers, is a knock at the door of the heart; it is the voice of Jesus, asking for entrance.” The Review and Herald, November 2, 1886.

What happens when you do not listen to these knocks?

  • “With every knock unheeded, your determination to open becomes weaker and weaker.
  • If the voice of Jesus is not heeded at once, it becomes confused in the mind with a multitude of other voices,
  • the world’s care and business engross the attention, and
  • conviction dies away.
  • The heart becomes less impressible, and
  • lapses into a perilous unconsciousness of the shortness of time, and of the great eternity beyond.” Ibid.

Are you listening to that knock?

“The heavenly Guest is standing at your door, while you are piling up obstructions to bar His entrance. Jesus is knocking through the prosperity He gives you. He loads you with blessings to test your fidelity, that they may flow out from you to others. Will you permit your selfishness to triumph? Will you squander God’s talents, and lose your soul through idolatrous love of the blessings He has given?” Ibid.

The last appeals are now being made by the knocking.

“Christ is making His last appeal to hearts. … how reluctant He is to give you up to separation from His love and presence forever! Still is heard the step of Him who waiteth at your door; His voice is yet pleading for entrance; but there is a point beyond which His forbearance will not reach. Shall the words be written over the doomed doorway,

  • ‘Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone’ (Hosea 4:17) …
  • He is joined to his idol of earthly treasure: let him alone?
  • He is joined to his idolatry of self: let him alone?” Ibid.

No time to loiter!

  • “You have no time to loiter, no time to consult your convenience. It is now, even now, that you are to be zealous and repent. Oh, it is peace that you need—Heaven’s forgiveness, peace, and love in the soul.
  • Money cannot buy it,
  • intellect cannot procure it,
  • wisdom cannot attain to it;
  • but Jesus offers it as a gift.

It is yours if you will but reach out your hand and grasp it. … We cannot be satisfied with a form of godliness. We must have the deep movings of the Spirit of God in the soul.” Ibid.

“Open your doors, says the great Merchantman, the possessor of spiritual riches, and transact your business with me. It is I, your Redeemer, who counsels you to buy of me.” Ibid., August 7, 1894.

Father: I thank You for showing me that every warning, reproof, and entreaty in Your word or through Your messengers is a knock at the door of my heart, that it is the voice of Jesus asking for entrance. I do not want to be joined to these idols. Please give me spiritual discernment so that I may hear Your knock and grant me the grace to remove all obstructions so that I may open the door to You. Amen.