Vault Combination

“Four times right at sixty, three times left at seventy and two times right again at twenty.”

I was starting to loose my patient as I was turning back and forth, for the fourth time, the knob of the heavy metallic door in front of me. I was already conscious with some persons behind me asking how I was doing. I just can’t hit the mark. After a little prayer and a lot more patient turning, finally I was able to hit it and we were able open it. My superior assigned me as her new vault co-custodian a few days ago. We open three doors like this everyday and somehow she has become a lot more patient since she seemed to have gotten used with my troubles in my combinations. I thought I was turning and hitting it right. One time I was even had to ask help from the previous co-custodian because banking hours is already starting and we could not yet open the vault. Sometimes I was tempted to ask my superior to replace me instead. But I know I should not. I was the only one left that hasn’t had the position for a long time. I just have to learn the techniques on how to turn the knob well to open it.

 

I behave like this with God. Sometimes I get lost and find myself away from His presence because I always forget the combination I had made to be able to open the vault of His blessings everyday. I would find myself already cramming because I couldn’t seem to get into Him no matter how I try. Just to find in the end that I am not using the right combination. I become focused on my self and worldly cares and forget about His existence. I am not doing the basic things that I need to do in order to restore my relationship with Him. Like missing my prayer time, scripture reading, daily and weekly Mass, adoring Him at the PEA, being lazy and refusing to serve Him and others around me, enjoying and contributing green jokes, making unkind remarks and deeds and etc. Most of all, not going to confession every time I commit sin. I know these things must be done in combination with the other actions in order for me to hit the mark and open the vault where I could find the blessings I need from Him everyday. The strength that I need when storms comes.

Same thing is true with the relationship I have with my friends. Sometimes I feel like we are not friends anymore or not close enough like we used to. I realize that I have stopped reaching out to them. I have become so stingy in texting them back when they send their greetings. I was also lazy communicating sometimes. I even refused to ask for their help. Sometimes I forget things about them. I forget the trivial promises I made to them. 

This also goes with our body. We need the right combination of fruits and vegetables and right kind of exercise to make our body fit. Eating the right food everyday only is not enough but with exercise as well. We also need to have a great amount of patient. 

Valuable things are kept inside a vault. It could be money, jewelries, pertinent papers and anything that is of value to the owner. Combinations are needed to open it which is to the knowledge of only a few persons. God’s vault is different. The combination is open to all. It is published and advertised, in the internet, in the radio, newspapers, in the market and everywhere. Treasures are even revealed to lure people in getting the right combination. But unfortunately most people doesn’t seem to care. They are not interested. Some thinks their treasures are more valuable than what is inside God’s vault. There are also some that are coward and thinks they could not memorize the combination. They think they could not make the proper turns and hit the mark. Some doesn’t even try. They are afraid to take the risk. Some just doesn’t have the opportunity and to the unfortunate, they just don’t know about the good news.

But it is a whole lot different with God. Unlike the real vault that we really have to find the mark and hit it, God moves himself and show us where the mark is. He wants us to hit it every time. He wants to give us all the things He has in His vault. But still we fail because we make the wrong combination no matter how many times it was revealed to us. We have lots of reasons why we fail like being lazy and careless, not paying attention, not making it our priority, deciding to wait when they grow old or when they will have their own family and many others. We sometimes feel like He is away, but the truth is, we were the one who went away from Him. God doesn’t run away from us, rather He pushes Himself to us. He loves us so much that He desperately wants to enter into the door of our hearts. However, there is no door knob, it is inside us. We are the only one who could turn that knob so He could come in.

So, if today we hear His voice, let us hurriedly come and open the door of our hearts. As we open our hearts, we also open the vault of His tremendous blessings that He desperately want to give us all and enjoy.

Now that you know, please…. open the vault!