Close That Door Gently

” I _don’t care what she feels!” _I don’t care what he feels!” This can be our self-justifying statements after walking away from a  person we were so close to.

Honestly, with all the pain we went through, when we close a relationship door with uncontrolled emotion, it is likely that such an action will widen the bridge of hurtful feelings between the two of us. Does it matter? Yes, it does!

We speak words we think through later and say, ” I think, I should not have uttered such a statement.” But the damage is already done! Only reconciliation may try to repair the damage.

In addition, we damage our own reputation. Not even our beauty and reknown Godly posture is spared. It loses color. The most bothersome pain point is that our testimony for Christ gets tainted. We become a shadow of what we claim to be. Eventually, the most holy name of Christ is blasphemed among the wicked.

And yet who knows what the future holds?

As far as relationships are concerned, lets never burn those bridges. Let’s close relationship doors gently. We may need to cross that bridge again. We may need to walk through that door again. Even when we never do so, we bear the name of the most decent Person who ever existed – Jesus Christ. We are his ambassadors. We can represent him better. We can show those who hurt us that we are citizens of heaven, a royal priesthood and children of God. For the sake of His Name, let’s close those doors gently.