And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.(Matthew 16:19)
While working at a nursing home one night at the beginning of our shift change, one of the girls came over to assist another with counting medication, a serious protocol. Upon finishing her count she hurried and closed the medicine drawer, clocked out and left the building. Her replacement noticed after a few minutes that the keys to the medicine cabinet were missing.
She contacted our coworker to see if she took the keys by mistake, but she did not. She looked everywhere for the keys but could not find them. The next move was to call a locksmith to come out, but as she opened the book that contains the information for the medication to be passed out to the clients, what do you know? The keys were in the book.
This is how we summarize our lives. We are sometimes in such a hurry that we never take time to set down and open the book, our Bible that is. It is our daily medicine. Every key that pertains to our lives and godliness is in the book. The keys for our mental, physical, financial, spiritual and emotional needs are all inside the book. It is our wisdom for life.
We spend so much time seeking for the keys to our individual lives outside the Book. We look for keys in a mate thinking that marriage is the key. We go to school for years trying to find the keys in education. We choose a certain group of people trying to fit in with the click assuming the keys are with them. Some look for the keys in food. The truth is that we always leave those things unsatisfied.
True satisfaction comes through Jesus Christ. He is our living bread. Jesus asked His disciples one day in Matthew 16:15-17 “Who say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.  And Jesus answered and said unto him, blessed art you, Simon for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
In John 1:1-2, 14 it says that in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. The more you read the Bible the more God will reveal every key you need to open doors in your life, the doors of wisdom, knowledge, understanding and guidance. Make opening the book your first priority daily for abundant life change.
