Are You Afraid That Jesus Might Be a Thief?

“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life... ”

John 10:10

Picture your life as a house. You are sitting in your living room, and there is a knock on the door. You pull back the curtain to see who is outside.

Jesus says, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me” (Rev. 3:20).

If you fear that Jesus may be a thief and that your life will be less if you let Him in, you will bolt the door. “If I let Him in, He will take away my freedom to do what I want. He will kill off what I enjoy.”

But if you were to see that Jesus came to give you life, you would pull back the bolt and open the door. So, hear these words of Jesus: “I came that they may have life” (Jn. 10:10).

Now someone may say, “Well, I have life already. I have good friends. I am content. I am happy, and I don’t need Jesus.”

But here’s the thing: God gives us life, but we don’t hold it in our possession. Life can be taken from us in any number of ways—cancer, an accident, or an act of violence.

But for Jesus, it is different. John says, “In him was life, and the life was the light of men” (Jn. 1:4). Life is in Jesus. He holds it as His own possession.

Jesus knocks on the door of your life. He is not a thief. He has come so that you may have life, and when you believe that, you will open the door.

Have you opened the door of your life to Jesus? When you see what He can give, you will freely and gladly open the door and welcome Him in.