February 2019
Text Box: Pastor’s Thoughts           We have heard much about a wall since the beginning of this New Year. A wall in which viewed by one side provides protection and yet on the other side exclusion from a chance at hope. One wall viewed with different perspectives. My wife made the statement recently, “I’ve heard everything about that wall I ever want to hear.”  The wall, of which I speak, as you know, is caught in the realms of political debate and may or may not ever come into actual existence. It non-existence however has already impacted many a life.           There is another wall that fills my mind this morning. A wall not built out of brick, concrete or metal. In fact the wall that I speak of cannot be seen with the human eye, yet is has stood between man and God ever since the fall of Adam and Eve. This wall is comprised of impenetrable elements which issue from the heart of unredeemed souls. These elements when coupled with unbelief produce a wall so high, so wide and deep that should every man from birth, work his entire life to scale its heights, would only discover the futility of his efforts. The wall of which I speak has a title; it is called S-I-N.           This wall serves to protect the eternal from the effects of sin. Trapped behind the wall, man is forced to live with hatred, death, crime, deceit, brokenness and shame alone with immoral behavior of every sort. With each tic of the clock, time ushers these lost souls to an end described in the Bible as a place of eternal torment. Man is helpless and hopeless left alone, dwelling on the wrong side of the wall.           Hold on. Look again, there on the eastern side of that wall, it that a door, an opening, a possible means of access to the other side? Oh yes, my dear reader, that is an open door. Access is available through and by that one source of opportunity. Jesus said, “I am the door”!!!           Here is the good news, He has set before you an open door and no man can shut it. It is open to each of you as long as you have breath or until He closes the door as His appearing. I suggest you move quickly to the other side for no one knows how much time they have to escape.           I have already personally entered through that door and found the new life Jesus provides brings immediate peace within a heart. The ticking clock that once produced fear and would bring me to certain death now reminds me that I am on my way home. I am still in a mixed up and confusing world, but I am no longer eternally bound by its walls. I have been set free by the grace of God! How about you?