Dinner with Jesus // There's a Knock at the Door, Part 2

<p>When we’re out there doing it our way as that old song goes, living life, kind of rejecting Jesus – not completely, just a bit on the lukewarm side – the hardest thing to do can be to take the decision to open the door when He comes a knocking. It’s hard that is, until we realise what His purpose is … and it may not be what we think.</p> <h4> </h4> <h4><span style="color: #ff9900;"><strong>Dinner with Jesus</strong></span></h4> <p>Just the other night my wife Jacqui and I were invited over for dinner by some friends of ours, James and Shirley. So we headed over, picked up our daughter from work along the way, she came with us. They'd prepared this lovely meal, a rich stew with lots of vegetables which I really like. In one sense it wasn't a real flashy meal, not up market if you will but that wasn't the point. It was a week night, they'd both been at work all day as we had. It was just such a joy sitting down sharing a meal together, sharing our lives with one another.</p> <p>It's those simple things in life that I really enjoy, don't you? Every now and then to just fellowship with friends over a meal is something really, really special. Not a large crowd, just us and some friends. That's how we get to know one another. That's how we get to know the heart, the life, the joys, the sorrows of someone – by sharing a meal with them.</p> <p>This week again on the program we’re continuing our theme of intimacy with Jesus in this series that I’ve called, "There’s a Knock at the Door" because Jesus, as it turns out, wants exactly that same sort of relationship with you and with me. And that, from where I sit is absolutely awesome. That's something worth wrapping our hearts around – His passion to be close to us.</p> <p>So far in this series, we’ve spent some time in this passage in the Book of Revelation. I’m going to read it again. It comes from the Book of Revelation Chapter 3 and it starts at verse 14:</p> <p style="padding-left: 40px;"><em style="font-size: inherit;">And to the angel of the Church in Laodicea writ