MORNING MANNA          6/22/20

Pastor David Dykes told the true story about a honeymoon couple spending their first night at a nice hotel. Early the next morning they were going to catch a flight to Hawaii for the rest of their honeymoon. The manager of the hotel was a friend of the groom’s family, so he offered to take care of their room that night at no cost.

The newlyweds arrived in their room. They were disappointed. They had been hoping for a large suite. But instead, it was a small room with only a pull out sofa bed. The bathroom didn’t have a tub or shower. The only food available was the expensive snacks in the mini-bar. But they didn’t want to complain because it was free. The next morning, when they checked out the manager met them and asked them, “How did you enjoy your suite?” The groom said, “They must have given us the wrong room because we had to stay in a small room and sleep on a pull-out sofa.”

The manager looked again at their room number and said, “That was just the small den of your suite. Did you walk through the door into the large living room and bedroom? I had prepared a meal for you including champagne, and there was an oversized tub. Our housekeeping staff had sprinkled rose petals on the king-sized bed. Did you not see that?” The husband and wife sheepishly admitted that they saw the door, but they thought it went to a closet. They never opened it. They missed out on the wonderful honeymoon suite because they didn’t open the door.

When I read that story I thought about how that’s a parable about Heaven. Jesus loves you and has prepared an amazing room for you to enjoy for eternity. By faith, you must simply open the door. And Jesus is that door. He said in John 10:9, “I am the door. If anyone enters through me he will be saved.”