Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone will open to me, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.
These words of Jesus are not simply picturesque poetry. It is truly a question of who is the host and who is the guest. He means to be with us in every circumstance of our lives, in conversation, in deliberation, in reflection, in our work. He would sit with us at our table and invite us to sit with Him at His. He would walk with us in our day-to-day lives and invite us to walk with Him in His. He would stand before the gates of hell and the powers of death with us, and He invites us to stand with Him agains all the powers of evil and destruction. He is our blood-covenant God, our Redeemer, our shield, and our very great reward.
Most of us as children made a blood-covenant with a close friend: bff; your enemies are my enemies; your friends are my friends. I will eat at your table; you will eat at mine. We are one. So, too, has Jesus sealed the pact in His own blood. In the Old Testament Jewish sacrifices, the blood of goats and lambs was sprinkled both on the altar of God and on the people to signify this union. Now, we have the blood of the God-man as testimony that God has irreversibly entered human history and will not leave us to our own devices. He has not required our blood in return, but only that we "open the door" that He might come in and sit down at our table.
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While it is true that Christ will stand with us in our journey, many of us see other people as enemies and define God and Christ as being the enemy of our enemies. I think it's important to have Christ as the definer of the enemies against whom we stand, rather than us defining enemies and asking God to stand with us against our perceived enemies.
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