[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-0628":3},"JUNE 28\r\nA door opened in heaven (Rev. 4:1).\r\nYou must remember that John was in the Isle of Patmos, a lone,\r\nrocky, inhospitable prison, for the Word of God and the testimony\r\nof Jesus. And yet to him, under such circumstances, separated from all the loved ones of Ephesus; debarred from the worship of Church;\r\ncondemned to the companionship of uncongenial fellow-captives, were vouchsafed these visions. For him, also a door was opened.\r\nWe are reminded of Jacob, exiled from his father's house, who laid himself down in a desert place to sleep, and in his dreams beheld   a ladder which united Heaven with earth, and at the top stood God.\r\nNot to these only, but to many more, doors have been opened Into Heaven, when, so far as the world was concerned, it seemed as\r\nthough their circumstances were altogether unlikely for such revelations.\r\nTo prisoners and captives; to constant sufferers, bound by iron    chains of pain to sick couches; to lonely pilgrims and wanderers;\r\nto women detained from the Lord's house by the demands of home, how often has the door been opened to Heaven.\r\nBut there are conditions. You must know what it is to be in the\r\nSpirit; you must be pure in heart and obedient in faith; you must be willing to count all things but loss for the excellency of the\r\nknowledge of Jesus Christ then when God is all in all to us, when we live, move and have our being in His favor, to us also will the  door be opened. --Daily Devotional Commentary.\r\nGod hath His mountains bleak and bare, Where He doth bid us rest awhile;\r\nCrags where we breathe a purer air,\r\nLone peaks that catch the day's first smile.\r\nGod hath His deserts broad and brown A solitude-a sea of sand,\r\nWhere He doth let heaven's curtain down, Unknit by His Almighty hand.",1783499793159]