[Newsletter] Daily Devotional

[littlejane at rgcministries.com]

Only One Door


Read: John 10:7-10


I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved. ~ John 10:9


Old Testament scholar Sir George Adam Smith says that when he visited  
the Holy Land he came upon a shepherd and his sheep standing before a  
stockade. There was no door in that protective enclosure, only an  
opening the width of a man?s body.

Smith asked the shepherd why there was no door, and he explained: ?I  
am the way in. I stand in the opening, and the sheep pass under me  
into the stockade. When they are all safely inside. I lie down across  
the opening. No thief can get in and no sheep can get out except over  
my body. I am the entrance.?

We are like sheep who need a Shepherd (1 Peter 2:25). For entrance  
into heaven, a place of eternal bliss, Jesus gave this claim: ?I am  
the door of the sheep? If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved? (John  
10:7-9). The people listening to Him that day didn?t think of a wooden  
gate swinging on hinges. They understood that He was really saying, ?I  
am the entrance into the homeland of God.? He could claim to be the  
way into that eternal blessedness, the exclusive way into God?s glory,  
because He is the incarnate Son of God.

Jesus is the only way into heaven (John 14:6). We gain entrance only  
by putting our faith in Him.

~ Vernon Grounds

Come to the Savior, make no delay ?
Here in His Word He?s shown us the way;
Here in our midst He?s standing today,
Tenderly saying, ?Come!?

~ Root


Thought For The Day:
There are many ways to hell, but only one way to heaven.