Leaving the Door Open
As we were growing up, how many times did your mom yell at you for leaving the door to your house open? It was mostly, “Were you born in a barn?” Or it may have been “Shut the door and don’t let the flies in.” I can remember my mom moving through the house waving a dish cloth in both hands while calling to us kids, “Open the door.” She was rounding up the flies that had managed to get inside and was shooing them back outside.
That doesn’t happen very often today because we have fitted screens on the outside of our windows and not the ones that propped the window open and was spread to fill the window casing side to side to allow the outside breeze to cool the house. And for those people who have air conditioning, it would be even rarer for flies to invade the house.
I heard a phrase on the radio that sent my thoughts racing down this pathway. It was basically an observation about Leftists and Leftist politicians. He said that they will try doors to promote their agenda and if they find that there is no resistance, they will enter, take over that room, and try to open more doors. When they can push their ideas into accomplishments, they will continue to keep on pushing. It is the embodiment of the old adage “give a person an inch and they’ll take a yard.”
This is exactly what Satan does. He will push temptations into our paths. He will constantly try the doorknobs of our soul and if we don’t resist, he will try to find more ways to draw us into other sins or draw us deeper into the sin which we’ve yielded once. It will be a constant and daily battle once Satan has discovered a chink in our armor or found an unguarded door. Satan has one advantage; he studies and knows our weaknesses. But those who have accepted Christ as their Savior have already won the battle. God the Father has placed the Holy Spirit inside of us and when Satan attacks, Satan can only gain entrance if we bypass the Holy Spirit’s protection to invite Satan in.
Christ has already won the victory. We only need to stand strong when Satan tried to turn the doorknob. Keep the door locked.