Hockey in Summer

“I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.” John 10:9 (NKJV) Well, there was no such thing as summer hockey before artificial ice. Now, in the month of June, the Stanley Cup is being contended for well into the best part of our summer. That’s the NHL, but some people might have wondered about me when they recently saw me walking across a parking lot with a hockey stick on a hot summer day! Yes, I was a hockey enthusiast when I was young but, as I write this, I am neighboring 90 years. Well, I’ll try to explain why I was carrying a hockey stick that day. There’s a Goodwill Thrift Store on the west end of Edmonton. We decided to stop there for a few minutes on our way home. That is when it all happened! I shut the truck door before I asked my wife if she had her purse with the extra key. Her answer? “Oh, no!” As I stood there looking at my keys in the ignition, I thought, “I’d rather be locked out on a warm day than when it’s 40 below zero.” I then remembered that I had left the windows slightly open, the rear one a bit more. It might work to use a hockey stick to reach in and tap the lock. It didn’t work — I had to call the Motor Association. As I was waiting there, I thought about the fact that there is a “lockout” day coming in the spiritual realm. When the Lord destroyed the world with a flood, there was one door into the ark. Genesis 7:15-16: “... they went into the ark to Noah . . . and the Lord shut them in” (NKJV). Today, Jesus is the Door to the offer of an eternity with Him (John 10:9). Friend, if you have not already accepted Him, don’t you think you should do it now? Thank you, Lord Jesus, for being my Door to salvation. — Bill Jackson   Council Fire is a collaboration with Intertribal Life Ministries and Native Evangelical Fellowship of Canada. The Council Fire Daily Devotional Book Set is available on the Intertribal Life Ministries website. Learn more about Council Fire at councilfire365.org