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1There’s a knock on the door. So you get up and open it. On your doorstep is someone you don’t recognise—you’ve never seen them before in your life. They say “Hi.” You reply, “Um, hello?”

They look at you expectantly. You wonder what’s going on. After a long, awkward pause, they finally ask, “Well, are you going to let me in?” And you say . . .

You probably say “No, get lost”, because you don’t just let strangers into your home. Heaven is a bit like that. It’s God’s home! So getting into heaven isn’t about what you’ve done or what you know. It is about who you know.

Jesus told people, “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven [God’s home] . . . I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you’ ” (Matt. 7:21-23).

If we’re trying to be ‘good enough’ to get to heaven, we’ll never get there. The only way in is to know Jesus for ourselves. He’ll never let us in His home if we’re strangers to Him.

— Chris, an Our Daily Bread reader

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