Until God Opens the Next Door for You, Praise Him in the Hallway

We seem to have a fascination for doors, always curious about what lies beyond. Sometimes a door in our life just won’t open and it frustrates us.  We want to be busy doing, not standing and waiting.

When that door is closed, we may feel that God has left us, that He doesn’t hear us  -  or that we aren’t hearing Him.  We may feel like we are floundering and don’t know what our next step should be.  But when a door isn’t open, it doesn’t mean we’ve lost connection with God, it’s just that He’s causing us to wait a bit. The hallway is a place of rest and waiting.

There are several well known scriptures that tell us to wait in the hallway:

• Wait on the Lord and He will renew our strength.~ We want to be strong, not weak, right?  What we choose to do while we’re in the hallway may be the difference of whether we will be strong or weak when we finally walk through the  door.

• He maketh me to lie down in green pastures, He leads me beside still waters, He restoreth my soul. ~ God knows the frailty of our human bodies and knows that we can’t always be about the race, the fight, without some restoration. Even Jesus took time out to wait, to receive strength.


• Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord.~ Sometimes we’re so busy doing we don’t have time to see what awesome thing God is doing in our lives, right now, right here.

 Why do we have doors?  What are their purpose? Mostly, they’re placed for protection, to keep the bad out (or in) – people, weather, animals or whatever form that might take.  Although most of us subscribe to ‘the grass is greener on the other side’ mentality (even if subconsciously), when a door is closed, we don’t know what lies on the other side - could be good, could be bad. We really don’t know what the situation might be … but He does!

So when a door isn’t open don’t fret, don’t pound on the door or kick it, and don’t wait for the door to open to praise Him – go ahead and praise Him in the hallway. Know that He’s still at work in your life, giving you a time of quiet and calm to refocus on what He’s doing – before He sends you back into action through another open door.