Who’s That Knocking?

Who’s That Knocking?

Look! I stand at the door and knock. If you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in, and we will share a meal together as friends.

Revelation 3:20

Donna was a pediatric nurse who worked in one of the children’s wards in a large hospital. She loved her work, and she adored the children she treated every day. They added such life and delight to her days, and she thrilled at seeing them get well and go home.

As the children’s nurse, she often had to use her stethoscope to listen to their lungs and hearts. So that the kids would not feel frightened by the stethoscope, before Donna used it, she would ask if they would like to listen first. Then she would put the earpieces in their ears and let them hear their own hearts beating. Their eyes would light up in surprise and awe, and she would get excited responses.

“Wow! What’s that?”

“It sounds like someone’s playing a drum.”

“Is there a woodpecker in there?”

One day she let little four-year-old David listen to his heart. She gently tucked the stethoscope into his tiny ears and placed the round disk on his chest over his heart.

“Listen, David,” she said quietly. “What do you hear? What do you suppose that is?”

Concentrating really hard, little David pulled his eyebrows together in a puzzled look and stared up at the ceiling as if lost in the mystery and wonder of the soft tap, tap, tapping. Then, suddenly, a huge grin broke out on his cherubic face, and he asked excitedly, “Is that Jesus knocking on the door of my heart?”

Father, I pray that I will constantly listen for your gentle tapping on the door of my heart. Help me to open that door and daily welcome you into my life. I can’t make it without you, Lord. Amen.