A locked door stays closed — Transcript

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1. 0:01A locked door won't open no matter how
2. 0:03long you stand in front of it. No matter
3. 0:05how badly you want it, no matter how
4. 0:06many times you knock, no matter how much
5. 0:08you cry, pray, beg, or replay the
6. 0:10memories. If it's locked, it's locked.
7. 0:12And I think that's one of the hardest
8. 0:13lessons God teaches us because sometimes
9. 0:15we spend months, sometimes years
10. 0:17standing outside doors that were never
11. 0:18meant to open again. Old relationships,
12. 0:20old friendships, old dreams, old
13. 0:21versions of ourselves. We keep checking
14. 0:23[music] the handle hoping something
15. 0:24changed, hoping they'll text, hoping
16. 0:26they'll come back, hoping maybe one day
17. 0:28we'll wake up and suddenly the door that
18. 0:30God closed will somehow be open again.
19. 0:32But a locked door [music] does not
20. 0:34become your future just because you
21. 0:35refuse to leave it.
22. 0:37And while you're standing there staring
23. 0:39at what ended, you're missing all the
24. 0:41doors God is opening around you.
25. 0:43That's the tragedy. Not that the door
26. 0:45closed, that that you're so focused on
27. 0:47it you can't see what's next. And I know
28. 0:50what it's like to stand outside a closed
29. 0:51door, to replay conversations, to wonder
30. 0:53what I could have done differently, to
31. 0:55convince myself that if I waited long
32. 0:57enough, tried hard enough, loved enough,
33. 0:59something would change. But eventually I
34. 1:01had to face the truth. Some doors are
35. 1:03locked because there's nothing left for
36. 1:04you inside. The lesson is over, the
37. 1:06season is over, the relationship is
38. 1:08over, and the only thing waiting behind
39. 1:10that door is an older version of you
40. 1:12that God is trying [music] to move
41. 1:13beyond. Because it's not every closed
42. 1:15door is rejection, sometimes it's
43. 1:17redirection. [music]
44. 1:18Sometimes God closes a door because he
45. 1:20knows what's on the other side will
46. 1:21break you. Sometimes he closes it
47. 1:23because he would have something better,
48. 1:24and sometimes he closes it simply
49. 1:25because your story was never supposed to
50. 1:27stay there forever. Faith is walking
51. 1:29away before the door opens, trusting God
52. 1:31without getting the explanation,
53. 1:33believing that if he locked it, there
54. 1:35was [music] a reason.
55. 1:36So, stop standing outside places that no
56. 1:38longer welcome you. Stop knocking on
57. 1:40doors that God already closed. Stop
58. 1:41exhausting yourself trying to force
59. 1:43entry into something that has ended.
60. 1:45Because a locked door won't open no
61. 1:46matter how long you stand in front of
62. 1:48it.
63. 1:49But if you have the courage to turn
64. 1:50around, you might finally [music] see
65. 1:51the door God has been holding open for
66. 1:53you the entire time.