A New Door

Argument

Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.

Omar Khayyam 1048-1131, Persian Astronomer, Poet

Ps 90:10
As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years, Or if due to strength, eighty years, Yet their pride is but labor and sorrow; For soon it is gone and we fly away.
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Samuel Butler, a British poet, said this of the argument that we, as temporary citizens of this planet, present with our lives each day, “We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself. I believe that this is the argument that Omar Khayyam the Persian Astronomer, and poet missed in his day.

I am sure that he studied with great interest for secrets and for ways to gain knowledge that others did not have, but notice his answer, “I came in and out the same door every day.” What door was that? I fear it was the door of knowledge, of knowing with the mind, and not a seeing with the eye, or ever an affirmation in his soul. Maybe no one ever lived it in front of him and showed him the great joy that comes from finding Christ as Lord and Savior.

Are we going in and out the same door every day? I am asking if you are living in front of others a Christianity that seems like the same old door, or are you living and entering in a new and different way? Paul says it this ways in Heb 10:19-20, “Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh.” You see if someone had lived this way in front of Omar, he wouldn’t have been an astronomer; he might have been a preacher…God Bless.

Pastor William