Nov. 27  Revelation 4

Transitions

Some days I miss my dad. Just last night Sandy, my wife, ask me if I ever wanted to go to my dad’s grave and do what ever people do when they visit the grave of a passed loved one. Sandy is very emotional about things like that and I think she probably had this picture in her mind kind of like at the end of the Forest Gump movie when Forest is standing under the big tree where he had buried Jenny and he was pouring out his heart to her. I am sure it must have been cathartic for Forest but I don’t see the need to go stare at a gravestone to accomplish that same experience.  I have picture of my dad in my office that is for me what the big tree was for Forest Gump. It was taken right after I baptized him in our hot tub. He is sitting on the side of the hot tub and smiling. That says it all for me. He died not long after that picture was taken. I know he is heaven and I will see him again, but I still miss him. One of the things that come to mind when I think about him is how consistent he was. You could set your watch by his routine in the morning. I think he realized the value; the potential of each day and I think he understood the importance of a good start to each day. Anyway, that is what I thought about this morning when I read Revelation 4. I hope you will read it for yourself but I am going to include here the portion that prompted my thoughts.

 

“After this I looked and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, ‘Come up here and I will show you what must take place after this.’  At once I was in the Spirit and there before me was a throne in heaven with someone sitting on it.”

 

As soon as I read this portion I immediately thought, “Now that is a good way to start your day.”

Think about it. There before me was a door standing open. Every new day is like an open door isn’t it? I love doors. I am a carpenter by trade and I have been handling and appreciating all kinds of doors for most of my life. When I travel to other countries I am always intrigued by the different types and styles of doors I find. Doors represent transitions to me. You move from one room, one environment, one purpose to another through doors. Each new room, environment has its own purpose, its own set of potential and opportunities; all new. Each day is the same way. We transition in life through each day. Every day we awake is a new door to a whole new set of opportunities and potential. And in God’s house (kingdom) Jesus said, “There are many rooms….If it were not so I would have told you.” Each room, each day transitioned by a door. And I love that the verse in Revelation says “the voice was speaking saying, Come up here and I will show you…..” I believe everyday the Voice of the Lord is crying out like a trumpet to us, “come up and let me show you the potential, the opportunities in this day.” And when we hear that voice we like, John, are immediately transitioned or maybe a better word would be translated  or maybe functioning or how about thinking, yea that works. We are thinking in the Spirit.

God’s got our attention and he can show us some things. And what He wants us to see to start every day is a throne in heaven with someone sitting on it. How would our days be different if we started with the realization that someone, you know who, is seated on a throne in heaven and ruling our life?

Or is he? It is your choice.

So let’s recap.

Today is an open door; a transition to a new set of opportunities and potential.

There is a voice speaking to me to Come up higher and see some new things.

I can start, think, live in the Spirit today.

There is someone on a throne in heaven who wants to rule my day and my   

attention.

That is a great way to start any day. It is a great way to seize the day. I know my dad would like it.

And one day we will join him in That Day.

Today; each day, is one day closer to That Day! How will you start it?

Just a thought.

Blessings