Perhaps the best kind of doors are doors of opportunity. The apostle Paul prayed for such a door in Colossians 4:3: “Pray also for us that God may open a door to us for the message, to speak the mystery of the Messiah.” He knew that God is the great door opener. We can plan and hope and dream, but ultimately God is the One who opens doors of opportunity for us.

The Ultimate Door

Jesus offers the ultimate opportunity: “I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved and will come in and go out and find pasture.” Notice that Jesus says that He is the door to salvation, not one door among many. To give you some context: a shepherd in biblical times actually slept in the one doorway to the sheep pen. In that sense he literally was the door. In using this metaphor, Jesus is once again making a claim to deity and teaching that salvation is found only through Him. Of course, this kind of exclusivity isn’t popular today. It’s one of the most common objections people have to Christianity. And yet it’s the truth. Jesus is the door.

Bottom Line

When you walked through the door of salvation, you entered into eternal life—the greatest opportunity any of us could ever have.