He's the open Door

Disregard of people’s religious or political background
there are three words that describe well the challenges
of refugees in a new country. They are sorrow, worry
and identity.
Sorrow comes first as the scenes that people have left behind
them are often very painful and discouraging. Many have
lost family members or put them in danger by their own
decision to move. Many have left their life-long achievements
and homes and possessions that they worked so hard for
in so many years. Greatest sorrow comes from the uncertainty
of the future. You might never see your country again.
Christ was familiar with this pain during his earthly life.
He was called a man of sorrows.(Is.53:3)
He escaped with his family to Egypt and all of his life his
righteous behavior caused “problems” to his family and to
those who followed him. He has a message to those who mourn.
As practical challenges start mounting up sorrow turns into
worrying. How are my family members doing? Will I get a job?
Will I ever learn the language? Will the police believe my story?
The list of questions has no end.
Many people have found their comfort in Christ in the time of
overwhelming worrying.
“Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will
drink; nor about your body, what you will put on.
Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?
Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor
gather into barns; yet your heavenly father feeds them.
Are you not of more value than they?” Matt.6:25-26
The question of identity caused many to leave their country
and it continues to haunt them even more in their new
circumstances.
“Only in God is my soul at rest, from him comes my salvation.”
Psalm 62 encourages man to keep his trust in God
in all times.
In God’s providence many have been brought away from their
secure environment to a place
where God finally can speak to them.
Through sorrow and worrying Christ invites them to have rest
in him.
“At the end of broken dreams, He’s the open door.”