Potato and Tomato

There was a couple (whom I will call Potato and Tomato to protect their true identity) that I was counseling one night.  At the conclusion of the session, they had gone out of my office door into the adjacent office and then into the hallway.  I actually walked them into the hallway and returned to my office, knowing that no one else was in there.  After I went back into my office, they discovered that the outer door of the building was locked and they couldn't get out.  They turned around and came back to the other door that led to another part of the hallway and that door was also locked.  They tried to go back into my office and that door was locked.  In essence, they were locked in.  I heard them outside scrounging trying to figure out what to do.  Tomato (the Mrs.)  was saying to Potato (the Mr.), we are locked in.  We can't get out.  By that time, I turned on the alarm system and it started counting down.  When they heard the alarm system counting down they really panicked...they lost it.  Tomato said to Potato, "The police are going to come and lock us up. We are going to jail!"  They literally panicked as the alarm system was ticking down...tick, tick, tick.  Meanwhile, I am behind the other door listening to all of this, and before it armed, I punched the code to cut it off just before it would alarm.  They were still behind the door panicking.  All they had to do was knock on the door that they went out of and the dilemma would be over.  After a few minutes (though they thought I was gone) I opened up the door laughing hard.  This reminds me of our walk with God.  Sometimes, the Lord will allow us to go out of a door and it seems like we walk into a trap while time is ticking away.  For most of us, we do like Potato and Tomato, we panic.  Jesus told us to knock and the door shall be opened.  It is a good lesson that all of us need to learn.  The Lord is on the other side of the door, and he is listening to you.  All we have to do is knock and He will open up.