My very close friend and I have this thing we do that since we know each other so well, we do not even knock when we enter each other’s house anymore.
Not to be rude, but we do not need to anymore. We know all about the other person, we know the entire family, and the family knows us. Being practically raised with him helps too.
I believe we need to get like that with our heavenly Father. We need to be in such a connected relationship with Him that He doesn’t even need to knock to come in.
If you think about it for a second, when people knock you have a chance to hide things, you have a chance to clean up as much as you can.
You can cover some stuff with a sheet, you can throw out all the garbage on the counter.
When they do not knock though, they see everything how it is, and how it was before they got there.
They see the true side of everything not the fake, not the cleaned up and edited, but the true, and transparent.
We get in this type of relationship with our heavenly Father whenever we have finally let go of our hold on our own lives.
This is when we finally have let Him take charge, and at that, to finally let Him help us clean up the garbage in our lives.
Some areas of knocking from God in our hearts could be for us to move, it could even be for us to stop moving.
Could be a check in our spirit to see our motives in our hearts for an action or response. For missing the mark(aka sin) or a knocking for us to see something that is right in front of our eyes that we’ve been missing.
“Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.” – Revelation 3:20
The knocking we receive from God can be as simple as a miss alignment needing to be corrected to as powerful as a needed direction change.
We can actually become numb to the noise of God knocking on our hearts. That in the moments of conviction in moments of pride, lust, lying, deceit, failures, ect.
The more we ignore the noise of the knocking on our hearts, the more other noises drown out the knocking of the love of God for us.
We can become numb to the touch of God on the door of our hearts.
Especially if we are not turning to Him in the moments of conviction and truth He is trying to reveal to us.
“Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.” – Revelation 3:19
We love to skip over certain verses, we read verse 20 saying man God is at the door of my heart! He is here to find me right where I am, But we skip over something called truth found in grace.
The fact is that God’s desire is to make us more like His son, not more like our dream of our future self. Sometimes that causes discomfort, pain and even frustration sometimes.
For God to make us into His son, we must first be changed and disciplined in certain areas of our lives that do not line up with Jesus’ way of life.
We get discouraged there, “God this way of life isn’t easy to live though!”
Look at Jesus’s response directly after those two verses.
“To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat down with my Father on his throne.” – Revelation 3:21
You can be victorious in this life because of what Christ has done for you.
Is it easy? No, He never said it was going to be. He said it would be worth it though.
To become truly victorious in Jesus means there is going to be moments of defeat in ourselves.
Look, God has been knocking on your heart in countless different ways, but above all, God has been knocking on your heart trying to tell you this one thing.
“You can do it, I am for you, and with you. Do not give up or give in, I am worth it.”
He is knocking.
We either ignore it to the point of numbness that we do not hear the noise of it.
Or
We respond & finally let Him not have to knock on the door
of our hearts, but actually live in it.
Joseph III
Desperately Dependent 