Jesus Is Our Gate

October 8, 2015

Jesus Is Our Gate

Yes, I am the gate. Those who come in through me will be saved. They will come and go freely and will find good pastures.

John 10:9

Jesus told Nicodemus, “So don’t be surprised when I say, ‘You must be born again’ (John 3:7). Sometimes people are prone to misinterpret Jesus’ conversation with Nicodemus to mean that our ‘born again’ experience is a one-off experience. Now we are saved, so let’s get on with the rest of our life. I take Jesus very seriously when he said that he will not lose me (John 10), and thus I do not believe we lose our salvation and have to be re-saved. However, it has been my experience that I have been born again, and again and again. My journey toward the fullness of life in Christ has not been on a straight-line super highway. Rather, my experience has been full of zigs and zags with more travel on two-rut wilderness lanes than interstate highways. Each and every time I receive more light from the Father, each time I experience Jesus anew as my way, the truth, and my life, I am born again, and again and again.

Jesus’ metaphor of being our gate, through whom we are saved, and through whom we come and go freely reveals to me the need to come to him each and every day. I came through Jesus, the gate, to be saved decades ago. This morning, I came through Jesus, the gate, again as I greeted this new day. It is in my continually coming through Jesus, my gate to the Father, that I experience Jesus as my way, the truth, and my life. And it is through Jesus, my gate, that I experience the abundant life he so graciously promised to me, and to you!

Keep enjoying Jesus!         

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com. The BLOG is also available on Amazon Kindle, by subscription.

Publications by Alex M. Knight:

·        Seeking the Life in Christ, Meditations on the New Testament and Psalms has been published and is now available at Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle.

·        The second edition of  First Think – Then Pray is available on Amazon Kindle.

·        Meditations on The Story of My Life as told by Jesus Christ has been released as an e-book on Amazon Kindle.

Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2007. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188.