Chasing Solomon

It’s been a couple of month’s since I last posted an article on the website. I am sorry about that, but I had a door slammed shut on me and have bit a bit busy.

I was a young man, probably in tenth grade or so, when I first heard the sound of a Death Row Cell door slam shut. That sound has never left me. I was on a fieldtrip to the State Penitentiary at Parchman with my high school class. The sound of that iron cell door slamming shut was a frightening experience. The echo of the door being closed was hauntingly eerie. We found out later that the intention of the teachers all along was for that closed door to be a learning experience that we would never forget. It was intended to scare us to death. And it did. That door slamming shut taught us a very valuable life lesson. The lesson was that the teacher wanted something so much better for our lives.

I believe God still teaches us valuable lessons if we are willing to listen to Him. We have all probably experienced doors that have been closed on us. Closed doors come to us in all forms. And when they come, what is it we hear? The sound of a closed door can be so deafening, therefore, we have to really listen hard to hear God speak. When we do listen, however, we hear a teacher who loves us so much and He wants something so much better for our lives.

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