Matthew 16:19
And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Some days you just feel like all the doors of the universe are closed against you. You look around and you see so many people seemingly ‘free’ but you feel bound up, shut up, and encased.
You ask yourself, ‘will anyone ever come to let me out of this prison?’ You look around at who you are, what you are, where you are, and why you are there and all you can say is, ‘Don’t know how I got here but I sure wish someone would rescue me.’
Now most Christians would openly say that they know that God cares and the Christ is the Savior. Some people even have the revelation that Christ is the Rescuer – which of course is what ‘savior’ really means. We know we need a Rescuer!
Some people will even espouse the fact that ‘the truth will set them free’. However — and there is always a however when it comes to the religious among us – in the end, still in their hearts, deep inside, they are really just waiting for something to happen. They don’t DO anything. They glory in waiting. When help doesn’t come, they despair. They look up at the Rescuer and the Divine One, sad.
Today I heard the verse above. This time a different ‘insight’ struck me, than in the past. The word that struck hardest was: KEY. The answer to life’s problems is all summed up in the word KEY. (No, it is not summed up in ‘I need a door or way out!’)
A KEY is a device by which one opens a LOCKED environment. Simple, right? But did you know that the person who holds the key CONTROLS THE ENVIRONMENT? That’s right. If I have the key to a door, and you DON’T, then you can’t get in or out BUT I CAN. I ALONE hold the key! It is MY responsibility to ‘activate’ the locking / unlocking mechanisms of Earth doors & Heaven doors.
Christ didn’t say ‘I HOLD ALL THE KEYS, ASK ME.’ He said to the Church at its inception ‘I WILL GIVE THEE THE KEYS.’ We are to control the environment of our existence, and the influences upon our spirits. What does the KINGDOM hold that only YOUR KEY CAN OPEN? I don’t know. Why don’t you use your keys and find out! Did you lose them? Then SEEK until you FIND! Be SPIRITUAL, not religious. It’s easier.
Original Copyright: © Anthony J. Massotti Th.M., Th.M. 3/21/2004