Standing outside a locked door is... - All The Good Seed Daily Devotionals for 2026

Everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
Luke 11:10.

Standing outside a locked door is annoying; if it is one's own front door, it could prove expensive. A locked door can prove fatal. This happened in 1875 on the North Sea island of Borkum. On a December night a ship ran aground off the western beach of the island in a storm. The waves beat against the ship, and the crew tried to rescue themselves by swimming, but they drowned. Only one 17-year-old ship's boy reached the island.

Nobody in Borkum had noticed the mishap. Fresh snow had fallen, so that the boy's tracks could not be discovered until later. After saving his life he went to the big houses near the beach and knocked at various doors. As the bedrooms were all on the rear side of the houses, no-one heard his knocking. He then tried at the door of the big lighthouse. That, too, was locked. Exhausted and suffering from hypothermia he sat down on the steps of the lighthouse. Next morning he was found there - dead.

How terrible! Saved from drowning, yet lost because doors were locked. Jesus Christ said however, "Knock, and it will be opened to you" (Luke 11:9). No-one will find Christ behind a locked door!

The Bible also reports that Jesus Himself stands outside a door, illustrating that the door to a person's heart is meant. Jesus wants us to open it to Him and invite Him to enter in. Whoever receives Him into his heart and life will enjoy happy fellowship with the Son of God both now and for all eternity (cf. Revelation 3:20).

Today's reading: Joshua 12:1-24 · 1 Corinthians 10:23-33