Keys

Sometimes I get tickled by the dumbest things, a couple weeks ago it was a story about a key. It’s not a particularly funny story, more of a “you had to be there” kinda thing. It did however get me thinking about keys and what they mean.

Most of the time I have a pocket full of keys. These are keys to various things, cars, houses, motorcycles, even a couple that I’m not sure what they go to. I would be willing to bet most of you are in the same situation. About ninety percent of the keys I know what they go to, and I own whatever it is. My keys get me in where I need to be.

Thinking about those keys got me thinking about our paths as people. How do you know if you’re on the right path? Are there guideposts we are looking for to insure we are heading in the right direction? Do we know we went the right way because we make it to our destination? How many times in this life have you come up against a locked door that you wanted to go through but you just didn’t have the key?

I’m a firm believer in the fact that if we are letting God order our steps we will run into locked doors, we will have hard times, there will be struggles in your life. I am also a believer in the idea that if God leads you somewhere to do something he will give you all that you need to do it. This brings me back to keys, if you are left outside of a locked door that God hasn’t opened for you then it’s not your door to enter.

I believe that God wants to open our doors he wants to give us all of blessings he has provided for us just like his word says. In Matthew 16:18-19 Jesus says “Now I say to you, you are Peter, which means rock and upon this rock I will build my church and all of the powers of hell will not destroy it, and I will give you the keys to the kingdom of Heaven. Whatever you forbid on earth will be forbidden in heaven, and whatever you permit on earth will be permitted in Heaven.”

No man holds your key. As people you could give someone the key to your car, the key to your house, a key to a padlock and maybe even the key to your heart, but the key to Heaven is one we don’t have to give. Thankfully for us Jesus died on the cross for our sins so that we may possess the keys to the greatest treasures you could ever imagine.

If you know someone who needs one more key on their key ring, introduce them to Jesus. He has just enough copies of the Master’s Key.

I love y’all.