“If Any Man . . . Open the Door”
“Just to fail to open the door is to shut God out of life. He never intrudes. He always waits for the door to be opened from the inside. “The richest experiences of life do not come unless we invite them. We may go through the years without once realizing that we are missing more of beauty and spiritual splendor than we are finding because we do nothing to break up the hard crust of routine and give the God of the abundant life a chance to get at us. “Many are unvisited by high inspirations simply because they will not make time and opportunity for their coming. They charge against a hard and sterile environment absence of moral illumination and incentive when their own lack of initiative is to blame. “Hard-driven business men consumed with the desire to make money bury themselves in a grinding routine untouched by any gleam of idealism. They have much pity for themselves, but do nothing to establish a connection with the sources of spiritual vitality. “Pleasure-loving people who find that it takes more and more of an effort to have less and less of a good time vote that life is futile. “We are created for visions we never see, for emotions we never feel, for exploits we never undertake. More life and fuller is trying to break in upon us all the time. “Clearly to possess the insight that God is ready to enter our inner life if we but open the door is to lay hold upon a truth which if rightly used in practical living will connect us with the soul-renewing energies of the world of the Spirit.”