" leaving a door cracked is not the same as closing it" by Cameron Haney

My friend Cameron wrote this to his blog. It is really good. Hope you like it.


leaving a door cracked is not the same as closing it, but usually that is exactly what we do in life.... a so called safety net, call it lying to ourselves, but the bottom line is that we leave ourselves with a way back in... usually to doors that REALLY need to be closed. for instance when it comes to vices and relationships...., say you have a porn addiction, you stop watching it, but u keep em in your room.... is it just in case?.... u r leaving the door cracked, it's not closed, if u really don't want it anymore, then throw it out!!.... or in relationships, u say I'm done with him or her, i wont call them anymore.... but u leave the their number in your phone....for what, your are giving things a way in...they say when a door closes God opens another.... then you sit wondering why it hasn't happened, why God hasn't giving you that man or that woman you have been asking him for... it is because God can't open a door until the first one is CLOSED... and cracked is not closed... sometimes you block your own blessing, by trying to do it your way, on your terms, not God's, when u really need to just get out of the way!..... they say if u don't want the fruits of sin, stay out of the devil orchard...... most of us pride ourselves of not eating the fruit but we are still in the orchard...... still flirting with it, still fooling ourselves... this happens with people, relationships, every aspects of our lives. We are playing the hokie pokie with God, you know, one foot in, one foot out. meeting someone new but still calling casually callin the person u were tryin to let go of.. leaving the door cracked. it's like making up the bed but not changing the sheets... it's not really clean...... that's why some people, never grow, never move forward, we are so comfortable with our lives even the misery in it, that we hold on to the familiar, even when its not healthy for us. we fool ourselves to think we r moving on or have moved on, but we wont till we let go of our safety nets, or what they really are, our anchors.....