You might’ve heard the entrance to Heaven is some kinda pearly gates. And maybe you also heard that Saint Peter is there deciding who gets in. C’mon man. That’s just silly kid stuff.

Ol’ Pete doesn’t get to decide who comes and goes to Heaven. No more than you or me (or I) or even the manager of your local 7-Eleven or club bouncer. But he did get to be sort of a doorkeeper while he was here on earth. I’m one, too. And you can be one, too. See if you can meet the job requirements. You must…

1. Wanna live forever
2. Trust Jesus as the only way to live forever
3. Be willing to share this information

So…how’d you do? Do you think the requirements are too difficult? If so, what part or parts would you change or want to be easier?

Being a doorkeeper could be the most awesome and most rewarding job you’ll ever have. You won’t get many tips (if any), but the pension plan is out of this world. In other words, the perks outweigh the jerks.

Of course, I’m not talking about being a doorkeeper for some mundane hotel, or exclusive high-rise, or even a swanky tech company. Because the best you’ll get from those jobs will be handshakes, smiles, and crossing of the palms with some crumpled cash. Big deal. You still won’t be invited to the CEO’s house for the holidays.

And it’s basically a metaphorical job beyond the entrance to heaven.

I’m talking about in the house of God. And King David wrote, in a psalm, what his thoughts were on being a doorkeeper there:

For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

I can tell you, from personal experience, I need the gift of grace for eternal life. Because I’ve done thing in my life I’m not proud of. And those things prove I’m not good enough, on my own, to live in God’s house. That’s why I’m so grateful I’ll be living in a Pure Place forever…thanks to Jesus. And I don’t mind being a doorkeeper to His house. Would you like to go in? Here…let me get that door for you.

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