day no. 17,415: lock and key, life and living

"We are Christians and Catholic not because we worship a key, but because we have passed a door." — G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

We are saved by grace through faith in Christ alone, not by knowing that we are saved by grace through faith in Christ alone. We are not blessed merely because we have the key or know the password, we are blessed because we've used the key to gain entrance to the throne room and spoken the password that opens the door. We do not worship salvation, we worship Jesus, and we are saved. We do not boast of good doctrine, we boast in Christ, and we gain right belief.

John 10:9

I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.

We are not saved because we know where the door is, we are saved by walking through it. We do not find pasture by looking through the door, we find it by walking on the other side of it. A lock without a key is inaccessible and a key without a lock is useless, but a key in a lock opens possibilities. 

John 10:10

I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.