It was a rainy day, not ideal for getting the keys and entering your new house for the first time! Still, our first home had just been completed by the builders and was ready for occupation, it was a very special time! I well remember the moment as we stepped over the threshold. We had not seen the house, as we had been living interstate, so it was particularly exciting to see it for the first time. As we entered the front door the freshness of a new house with fresh timber flooring seemed to invite us in. Then we explored, bedrooms, sparkling tiled bathroom, kitchen fitted out fantastic, and a living room ready for a young family to enjoy.

Stepping over the threshold and entering into a house is something we do so often without giving it a second thought. But when you stop and think about it, many special memories will be recalled. We visit friends and maybe enter their house for the first time, we all remember the curiosity of wondering what their house looked like inside. We make polite comments but our eyes and minds are busily active, quietly taking in the design, the pictures on the wall, the furniture. This is what thresholds are all about, it is crossing over into new life experiences.

When I think back to the beginning of my own Christian life there is a similarity. It is like stepping over a threshold into a completely new dimension of living. It opened up before me, a life design so much bigger and better than I ever could have imagined. When we receive Jesus Christ into our lives we are spiritually born again; we become sons and daughters of God, the one we then call Father. But sometimes overlooked is the fact that there is also a new set of life experiences for us to experience. It is a new life for a new person.

It is so easy to stay where we are, to be forgiven but fail to enter into God’s personal plans and destinies for our lives. He has the perfect blueprint ! When God starts to work in our lives according to His construction plan, good things happen! Often what happens will be quite unexpected, and more than we could have imagined! But one thing is for sure, we will have crossed over the THRESHOLD and entered into a life God has constructed.

Ref. John 3:3-7, 2 Cor.5:17. NIIV.