Jesus at the door

Jesus knows us better than anybody. He speaks our language. He talks to us about things that nobody else cares about. He listens.

And he does all this because he loves us.

This was something I learned again and again while doing research for my book, Letters from Jesus. The letters from Jesus to the seven churches are full of idioms and local references that mean nothing to us. But they meant much to the people who heard them. Consider this well-known verse:

Behold, I stand at the door and knoc...