A Parable of Two Doors

[Guest]

In the ward building where I grew up we had a relief society room with two doors in the hallway.  We only ever opened one door.  I was in a meeting in that room one day and got bored.  From my vantage point, I could see the door (left open) swinging over the second door on the inside.  I wondered why the architect would have designed the door to swing over the other door.  That was most peculiar.  How would the doors be if both were opened at the same time?  Did the other door open the same way?  I looked.  That was when I noticed it.  There was no other door.  Huh???

At a break in the meeting, I went to the hallway to verify I had not gone into the Twilight Zone.  Yes, there was a second door.  What's more, it didn't have a door knob.  It only had a metal plate like you see on "push-open" doors.  I thought,"why not just push the door open rather than turn the knob on the main door?"  So, I pushed.  The truth is that I'm not really sure what I was thinking.  I had seen the other side of the wall with no door.  But the presence of this door just made me believe I should just be able to push on the panel and the door should open.  But it didn't.  Was there a lock?  No.  Maybe the other side?  How?  There's no door on the other side.

I guess I should excuse myself for being quite young and not knowledgeable at the time about doors and their interface with walls.  I'd come across other doors that were very hard to open.  And with my diminutive stature, I was wholly ready to believe it was my slight build that prevented me from being able to open the door.  So, I went and looked to verify I hadn't yet again dipped into the Twilight Zone.  No door. Door.  No door.  What was this?

Now, to the adult mind, of course the door was simply sealed off.  I don't know why they didn't remove the door entirely and re-build the hallway side to match the wall.  But there it was.

I have since noticed that this illustrated what so many people do with the "door" to Heaven.  They see what appears to be an easier path (simply push open).  When they consistently see that the door doesn't open, instead of just going to the other door, they will simply try to push open the door even harder.  I guess people think they can force their way into heaven.  They simply deny the fact that the door doesn't open.  And they don't even realize that the simple task of turning a knob is the level of work that they're trying to avoid.  No, that's too much work.  But pushing and shoving on an immovable door?  Yes, that is what we're supposed to be doing.

The Lord has an appointed means (a door) to get to heaven.  We simply need to open that door.  We simply need to "look and live".

Edited September 7, 2017 by Guest