Fear and the world.

"Knock, knock!"

Sinner: "Who's there?"

"Jesus"

Sinner: "Jesus Who?"

"Jesus Christ."

Sinner: "I'm sorry, could you come back another time? I am trying to prepare for tomorrow's final papers."

...

I believed that everyone of us are guilty of that. Whenever a sales person comes knocking on my door, I peeped through the hole, and then I quickly switched off my lights and wait for him/her to walk off. I am very annoyed when I have to entertain situations like this, more over I was in my boxers, and I don't wear pants at home.

Are we showing the same attitude to God too? Let's put aside the categorization between Christians and the non-believers. In fact, we are the same, the only difference between us is that we are able to recognize the fact that we are sinners by nature and Jesus Christ paid the price for our sins by laying his life on the cross.

When God comes knocking onto the door of your heart, what do you do?

1. Open it and welcome Him with open arms.

2. Stay as quiet as possible and wait for Him to leave.

3. Open the door and chase Him out of your heart.

Note that the door of your heart comes with only one knob, and this door knob cannot be opened from the outside, but from the inside. God doesn't make the choice for you, you decide.

People often refuse to open their doors to God is because they are not ready yet, they are unsure what would happen to them if they ever open it, they are from other religions, they are living a 'perfect' life, so why should they do it?

Definition of fear:

a specific instance of or propensity for such a feeling

Fear is a very powerful word, my friends. People refuse to open their hearts because of fear. Fear of guilt, fear of persecution, fear of what the world would think of them.

Fear can make you do things that are unimaginable, fear forms hallucination, fear makes you worry, fear creates anxiety.

It's time to do something about your life, do you want to continue living your life full of fears, or a life with one fear? What exactly is this one fear that we are looking at? It is the fear of the Lord, and a good fear.

Why?

The fear of the Lord is the beginning to wisdom.

The next time someone comes knocking at your door, open it, who knows that person you might see is Jesus...

Proverbs 1:7

⁷The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.