YOUR PLACE AT THE DOOR

HH, Sir Godfrey Gregg D.Div

“Peter knocked at the outer entrance, and a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer the door.” Acts 12:13

I like this sweet Judaean Rose — the maiden whose name was Rhoda. She has “an Oriental fragrance” about her.

Rhoda says to me: “Anybody can be the friend of Jesus. It does not matter how young you are — no, nor how poor and lowly you are. I was only a girl, and, more than that, I was only a slave girl. Yet He had a place for me, so simple and lowly — in His home and His heart. Ah, He despises none; He casts out none; He waits for you.”

And Rhoda says to me: “You can please Him in the common everyday tasks. It was my work to answer the door, nothing sublimer or loftier than that; and I left off praying to go and do it. And my answering the door was as pleasing to Him as my praying was. Just so, remember that you can honour Him in the most trivial and ordinary affairs of the quietest and lowest life.”

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THOSE WHO DO NOT SEE HIM

And again Rhoda says to me: “See that you have a trust in Him which nothing will shake. The brethren would not believe me when I told them that Peter was safe outside, but I — I confidently affirmed that it was even so. You do the same. If you cannot argue with people — then bid them go down to the door and see for themselves. For One better than Peter is waiting to enter there. Behold, Jesus cries, I stand and knock. If any man opens the door, I will come in.”

Indeed, I thank the damsel Rhoda for her wholesome and uplifting lessons.
Peter is one of the great mountains in the kingdom of the Bible.
Rhoda is a wildflower in the hedge by the roadside.
Both mountain and flower have their message for me — and I can part with neither.