Broken Bread, from an Evangelist's Wallet

“The door was shut.” The five were in, and then came the other five, to find the gate closed. Then they begin to cry “Open to us!” but in vain. The door makes all the difference. If you enter, it is by the door; if you are shut out, it is the door that closes against you. “I am the door,” said Jesus, and it is yet true. “No man cometh to the Father but by Me.” Yes, Jesus is the True and Living way, and the only one. But if we are lost, it will be the aspect of Jesus which will slay our last hope. It is the wrath of the Lamb which is so dreadful. Have you ever thought of it, my brother, that Christ is to be Life or Death to thee? If he does not shut thee into heaven, He will shut thee out. Shall you ever be one of the group which cry, as their last prayer, “Lord! Lord! open to us!”