Let's Hear It For The Closed Doors

Shutdown, closed, declined, dead, denied, delayed, done, finished, locked, halted, ended, concluded.

Words worth celebrating!

Wait, what?

Can we really find what we are looking for in our seasons of closed doors?

Opportunity, provision and providence is often found in open doors. After all, it’s a lot more satisfying to walk into something (ie perceived opportunity) then to have to come to a particular moment and step out of it. When we step out of something, it is usually from something we are familiar or comfortable in. And if we have been in it for a while, it might even become a habit that can be easily justified in our mind, making it even harder to give it up.

Do not underestimate the value of your closed doors!!

Closed doors are more often than not, a time of reflection, protection, ponder and an opportunity to pivot. It gives time to reevaluate and refocus on God when things do not end up happening the way we want them to. It gives a sense of redirection and purpose.

However, closed doors are not comfortable and closed doors are not easy. They stretch us and put up a fight in the ring against our trust in Christ. In the moment they sting and are terrifying.

Closed doors and timing are also correlated. Often, a door will be shut if it is the end of a season. In the same way, they open when it is absolutely time for you to step through.

Friends, a closed door is immensely valuable and is often a pivotal moment to reshape perspective and focus.

Do not ignore your closed door.

And so, we leave you with this Word,

"For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways," says the Lord. "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts," Isaiah 55:8-9.