Locked in a 5 x 6 cell, you have time to do some serious thinking about suffering and about living and about dying.
Medal of Honor winner Leo Thorsness shared some sobering thoughts in The Huntsville Times yesterday (Sept 7) about being shot down by an enemy fighter in 1967. And about his release in March 1973. And about life since then.
According to Mr. Thorsness, “If a door’s got a handle on the inside, that’s a good day.”
As believers in Christ, shouldn’t we be living with that same attitude every day? Haven’t our grubby hands turned the handle on the beautiful Door to enter the Kingdom? Ever since Peter was handed the keys, he’s left the door unlocked for all who believe in Jesus to walk right through. Can it get any better than that? Isn’t release from our self-made prisons of sin and suffering cause enough for triumphant celebration?
Mr. Thorsness described his day of release this way: “We showed no emotion at all until the airplane broke ground. Then we all let it go; it was total jubilation. I’d waited six years and then to have your freedom, all that emotion was released, it was a phenomenal experience.”
A phenomenal experience indeed. We, too, have our freedom. Total freedom. Let’s praise the Lord every day for being the Door...with a handle on the inside.
Jesus said, “I am the door.
If anyone enters by me, he will be saved
and will go in and out and find pasture.”
~ John 10:9
If anyone enters by me, he will be saved
and will go in and out and find pasture.”
~ John 10:9
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