Untouched Doorknob

This distrubing thought may come to us like this:

There were few doorknobs within the room that lead to somewhere. We were in a meeting with few people. With our sisters and brothers. We felt disturbed by the difference. We feel that we were not agreeable. We couldn't stay in the room with them. They had it their own way and we had it our own way. There is no solution to this meeting. It's all pointless. We thought that we got to forget them and get on to somewhere else. As we approached the doorknob to open the door, the conscience came to us, "If you open this door, then you will never reach to your destination. For you are where I want you to be. Stay." We fought against it for the situation seemed impossible. We paced and circled the room with anguish, our mind were still on the doorknob. We paced. We circled. God patiently waited.

We finally get this- that we had only two choices:

(1) We may continue to pace and circle with the determination not to touch any doorknobs, yet our mind were on them. We didn't act in disobedience, but we dwell upon them. "In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his thoughts there is no room for God (Ps 10:4)."

(2) We could let go of them to live in obedience- to dwell upon the Living Word. "How precious to me are Your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them (Ps 139:7)!"

Let us pray 1 Chronicles 29:18 prayer, "Lord, the God of our fathers Abraham, Isaac and Israel, keep these desires and thoughts in the hearts of Your people forever, and keep their hearts loyal to You."