The Door

Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. Jesus Rev. 3:20

What is the door that Jesus knocks upon and calls from without? It is the door of our innermost being. Not the door of our persona--that superficial mask that we present to the world--but rather the person, the core of our being, the secret place that no one can access without permission or willing openness.
Sometimes we think we have opened the door and welcomed Him in, and, indeed, we may have certainly done so, receiving Him as our Lord and Savior. But we discover that there are more doors, going deeper into the core of our being.
We discover that there are areas that He has not accessed because we didn't even know that we had these rooms in our soul where there has been worry, unmet needs, frustration and fear. He is knocking on these doors, these deeper doors, and we must continue to open them as they continue to be revealed to us. We have been born into a fallen world, permeated with seemingly limitless variations of deception, worry, fear, vain desires, frustrations, reactionary tendencies at the emotional as well as behavioral level. We are oppressed at deep levels that we are unaware of because these oppressive  spirits have been active in us from birth. Jesus knocks on the door of every room in our soul so that He might liberate us from these oppressive spirits. [Luke 4:18]  He is like a massive, all-powerful anti-virus program that clears away everything in the computer of our soul--all the spiritual viruses we have inherited and picked up in our worldly journey--and creates a new default mode characterized by deep inner peace, a feeling of eternal safety, unencumbered love flowing in and through us. He comes in like a mighty River of Life flowing with pure living water, cleansing away all fear, worry, condemnation and all oppression. He liberates us on progressively deeper levels as we progress in our sanctification. Life experiences continue to reveal and expose these levels of oppression--these doors that have been closed and out of awareness. We thought we could deal with anything, then a crisis occurs that shakes our foundation. We discover that we were building, at least in part, on a superficial foundation, even though we thought we were secure. We then discover anew, on a deeper level, the True Foundation that is underneath all superficial foundations--the Corner Stone, the Ultimate Truth, the Word that was in the beginning with God [John 1:1]. This is a glorious process, and our gracious God has promised to bring it to a glorious completion. [Phl. 1:6]