"I am the Living One; I was dead, and behold I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades." Revelation 1:18 (NIV)
I think everyone has shared the experience of standing
in the rain, at night, going through the keys,
desperately trying to find one that fits the door.
You may have a lot of keys that look like the door
key, but they do not fit. There is only one key that
is the right key, and, once you find it, you do not
have to look anymore.
Jesus is the key to the gates of Heaven. We are
issued this key after we do two things. First,
accepting Messiah's death on the cross as the free
gift that reconciles us with the Father, and washes
away all our sins, with the blood of Jesus. Secondly,
we must accept the Master's broken and beaten body, as
the clothes that cover our sinfulness. Once these two
things are done, our standing with the Father is
reconciled, and our sins are remembered no more.
God scatters them as far away as the east is from the
west, and no longer sees us as sinners who anger him,
but as children that love him. Then we know that we
hold the key to the riches and glories of Heaven, and
we can stop wasting time with all the keys that don't
fit.
Copyright 2007 Timothy E. Davis