11. Door

​My 31 Free Writes for October play out like a serial love story in an old time magazine. It’s the saga of a young woman and how God leads her to the love of her life. Each day offers new developments in a romance only the Lord could write.

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We are constantly being transformed by the relationships we make in life. Sometimes with enriching and beneficial results. Sometimes with devastating and harmful conclusions. Often it is because we open our heart’s door at the wrong time or to the wrong people when we get in over our heads and need God’s help to get out.

Once the door has been opened you change what’s inside forever.

Philippians 4:7 “And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” Godly peace is the hallmark of a life surrendered to Christ and it is that peace that stands watch over your heart.

Access to my heart isn’t something I give to just anybody.  I guard it carefully.

In this time of waiting for the next step I had to make sure that my emotions didn’t fling wide my heart’s door and push me across a threshold that God hadn’t intended.

In the waiting, God draws me to Himself and access to the door of His heart.

There I hear His quiet voice.

There I find peace and purpose.

In His care I surrender what keeps my heart from totally belonging to Him.
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2 Peter 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;

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