All doors come with walls. And every wall doesn’t necessarily come with a door. Our current culture loves a good knocking down of doors, building doors, or a sledge hammer wrecking ball approach to the walls in our lives. But let me invite you to pause from all that for a hot minute.
Think Function, then Ask
Doors function to open and close. It swings one way or both ways. If it won’t open from your end, think before you get restless and break it down.
- Is it for my safety that it won’t open?
- Am I trying to push when I should pull?
- Is it supposed to be opened from the other side by someone other than me?
Walls function to enclose and set apart. How we treat them is usually dependent on which side we stand. Wouldn’t it be prudent to pause and think before you break through or jump over?
- Which side am I on?
- Am I trying to get out or get in?
- What is my preoccupation with this particular wall?
- Is there a door somewhere along this wall that I’m not seeing?
After all that, isn’t the ruling thought to take matters into our own hands? Break that door down! Build your own door! Tear down that wall! Surely a self-made, I-can-do-anything, believe-to-achieve, dragon-slaying person would have broken through before we even started to pause and think.
But let me offer the difference I see between those who live and those who persist. See, there’s a difference between living and struggling. That factor is trust. Who do you trust, or what does that look like for you?
Who’s Your Builder?
The way we look at and treat our doors and walls rely on our perception and what we accept as truth.
- Do we see design or just randomness?
- Do we trust our own capacities or a much higher power?
- Are we capable of surrender or do we rely on self-determination and self-sufficiency?
- Are you willing to trust a higher timing when the world says go?
I want to step out as a sheep among wolves. What can man do to me? Too long have I feared the risk of condemnation and alienation from a world that seeks its own truth and timing. I say, so be it.
Within this known world, truth is not found in facts. Facts change. Established by the victors and prevailing minds that change with time. I’m submitting to a design that is beyond reason. That is well within me. I trust The Plan.
Truth is not subjective. There can only be one. And I choose to trust The Builder.
John Cruz writes... 