What doors will open for you in 2024? A new job opportunity perhaps? Or maybe the door will open to make that long awaited trip. Perhaps the unexpected chance to scratch off another item on your bucket list. We all have improbable opportunities present themselves in life. Some of these open doors can change our lives, and even serve God.

When Paul was in Troas, he was preparing to go into Asia, but in a vision, he saw a man in Macedonia saying, “Come over and help us.” So Paul traveled to Macedonia and came to Philippi. Paul later told the Corinthians that in Phillippi, “a door was opened for me in the Lord” (2 Cor. 2:12). What door? First, he met Lydia during a prayer meeting down by the river and baptized her and all her household. Next, doors were really opened in the prison, that led to the conversion of the roman jailer and his household (Acts 16).

 God accomplishes His will by opening the doors of opportunity for us to walk through. We might call it providence, happenstance, or just dumb luck. In truth it is God working in our lives, directing us through the opportunities he presents to us. “Chance,” Anatole France said, “is the pseudonym of God when He did not want to sign.” How will God direct your life this year?  What doors will He open to for you? Are you ready to walk through those doors?

-Dennis Doughty