Keypoints

I can only shake my head in confusion.

In front of me are tens and sets of keys for doors and some locks that we have accumulated while staying in China for the past nine years. To answer your curiosity how this happened, allow me to summarize it in three lines.

Three job changes.
Six flat changes.
Countless plane trips.

Everytime I have a new job, I will be assigned a working table with drawers and cabinets that uses keys.
Everytime we changes flat, we are given new door keys for the main gate, main door, mailbox, cabinets and all bedroom doors.
Everytime we travel, we need to lock our check-in luggages.

Still curious at how this oddity could have happened?
I misplaced them after using.
I hid them and forgot about them.
I forgot to turn them back over to the flat owners before leaving our place.

So now that I have some time to clean and re-arrange our stuffs, they all seemingly and suddenly popped from unexpected places. Long, short, small, large, rounded, squared, chrome-plated, zinc-coated. They vary a lot and expectedly so in order to meet its individual specific function while showcasing their individual manufacturer’s trademark identity..

How I wish they can invent a master key to fit all kinds of locks for each person but without any possibility of being used by another person. Universal yet exclusive. It would surely save us from the hassle of sorting, matching and marking which keys belong to which locks.

In our life, we also refer to some specific personal keys as the means to opening the doors of our goals in life, to release our potentials and to unfasten our dreams and our future. We have our birth-given core talents. We also can grow some learned talents. We have our parent’s valued upbringing. We study in schools. We attend seminars and trainings. We focus and enrich our knowledge and wisdom as we concentrate on our job or business to gain material wealth, prestige and respect from peers. We try one, several or all of them with the purpose of finding the ultimate source to our own happiness, inner joy and contentment.

Others, lamentably, resort to bad keys in search of their happiness. They resort to pride, greed, malice, lust, and wrongful pursuits of things of this world to experience happiness, no matter how fleeting they would be. They try drugs, gambling, liquors and other self-destructing vices to, ironically, feel good about themselves.

But not everything is doom and gloom because God, as always, knows that we will be totally lost if we rely only on ourselves because there is only one master key that fits into our longing, our want, our need and desire to be happy. And so, God worked out a plan for our salvation and sent His son to redeem us all, saints and sinners alike.

He is the way.
He is the truth.
He is our life.

Our universal yet exclusive key to eternal bliss is none other than our Lord Jesus Christ.
The challenge to us now is when we will finally let Him to fit into our lives and to remain in us.

He lovingly waits.
Hopefully not for long.

God bless.