Ancient door

“Lift up your heads, O gates! And be lifted up, O ancient doors that the King of Glory may come in” –Psalm 24:7

Where were you two years ago?

It was the start of 2015, a new year, a marker for a new start, a chance to make something of the things that were beginning to feel like a jumbled closet mess. 

We all have them. 

Dreams. 

Things we hope to achieve or see in our lifetime. Yet, if we are not careful, they do have the tendency to be put aside or sit on shelves.

What happens to a dream deferred?

They remain sweet… every time they are returned to, they begin to stir a passion within.

Where were you at the end of 2015?

Celebrating the triumphs of accomplishments?

Or ready to give up?

For one reason or another, by the end of 2015 almost 45,000 people had had enough.

Suicide is an epidemic that is not isolated to this country. It affects the whole human race. But, what would cause such a wealth of creativity, strength and talent, man to come to the conclusion that he would need to terminate on his own his life, his one given opportunity to make a difference and make a change in this broken world?

It is a battle, a real struggle we are all in. We have all faced, whether we are willing to admit it or not, that cruel delay called depression. It may have looked different for you than it has for me, but there are key threads, a signature that rears its ugly head under the guise of your own thoughts.

“It’s not worth it, this life, too tragic, to difficult… You’ll never be able to make it to the end.  And if you do, you would not have accomplished much. Those things you have experienced, those tragedies, you’ll surely have more. Just like the last one, the next will be more than you can bear. Quit now and save yourself the pain.”

In every battle, every war, there is an enemy. It would be ridiculous not to acknowledge the enemy in a war, or to infer that the pain was inflicted by your own doing. You have to wake up and realize…

This is NOT going to get any easier.

The only way that the struggle will be one that you can be victorious over and own authority in, is if you let the one who won the ultimate victory over death rule and reign in your heart. Now, you have a decision to make…

Will you wake up, look at your day and say,

“This is a day full of potential!” ?

Will you choose to say,
“Father, the sacrifice you made on the cross,

The gift you gave,

Life,

Is enough for me”?

We are the youth of the nation.

We are a Joshua generation.

We are the generation that will make the choice

The choice to seek the face of the God of Jacob,

The choice that will make or break it.

So, make the choice.

Swing wide the gate of your heart,

Let the King of Glory in,

And choose to be a door that heaven can flood through on this earth, in this day and age.