It always amazes me when a very familiar passage of Scripture - one that I've read hundreds of times - suddenly hits me between the eyes with an insight I had missed before. Our prayer meeting group has been working our way through Revelation. In that study we recently looked at the letter to the church in Laodecia. It is in that letter that we find the very familiar verse:
Revelation 3:20 "Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me."
This time as I read that verse it hit me between the eyes like two-by-four. Jesus is speaking to a so-called church - a church supposedly in the act of serving him. However, the same Jesus who said "where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them," is not in the midst of the church in Laodecia. Instead, he is on the outside asking to be let in. How sad that a "church" could meet and not even know that they had shut Christ out.
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