“a door of hope” 
 

(Hosea 2:15 KJV)  "And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt." 
 

When I read the above scripture, I can not help but couple its words of promise, with what Jesus said in (John 10:9 KJV)  "I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture." 
 

I’m glad that in a world of despair, of loneliness, of prejudice, of hatred, of wickedness, and sinfulness that there is Hope!  A door of Hope that was swung wide almost two thousand years ago and it still stands open for “whosoever will” too come.  A door that God opened and no man can shut! 
 

A door as you know is both a point of entrance and a point of exit, a point of getting in and  a point of going out.  Jesus is this door!  He is the place of entrance into all of the promises of God.  It is by Him that we find a point of entering into the Salvation of God.  And yet rejection of Him puts us right outside of the Gates of the Glorious City of God. 
 

There is hope regardless of your sin, regardless of your past a door stands wide open for you. THE DOOR OF OPPORTUNITY: It’s a door to a new beginning:

And yet men have failed to correctly use this door as we find Gomer did in the book of Hosea and they loose for a time their chance at true rest.  Look at the golden opportunity she had at the beginning: 
 

Here was a reputable man willing to accept her even after all she had done. Yet she left it all to follow after her lovers.  She left her first love thinking that her lovers could offer her more – yet (v. 8) shows us that “… she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold…” 
 

She had shut the door of opportunity on herself!  So many millions have done just this very thing! 
 

Now they sit in a prison house of their own making.  Afraid, alone, depressed, and convicted, realizing they missed their golden opportunity – their once and a lifetime chance! 
 

Yet there is, even here a door of Hope!  For notice Hosea gave her a second opportunity!  Aren’t you glad that Jesus is a God of second chances?   
 

(Isa 1:18 KJV)  "Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool." 
 

Here we find the door of hope once again swinging wide making a way for us to enter in. 
 

It’s not to late!  You’re not past hope!  Jesus said “behold I stand at the door and nock…” can’t you hear Him?  Listen, there it is again… all you have to do is open the door and find the hope you’ve always wanted waiting just outside the door!