Trusting God Through Closed Doors

The author, Kathy Cheek, reflects on a season when closed doors hurt her deeply. Rejection left her battered, and she writes that she had not yet understood that such closed doors could be part of God guiding her path. Looking back, she describes them as a way of God steering her away from certain directions, or preparing her for something different.

Cheek says the Lord encouraged her to keep asking, seeking, and knocking, and to trust Him completely. She admits she was a slow learner, so the lesson came gradually and through repeated reminders. She also describes being urged to look past the confusing circumstances in front of her and to trust that what lies ahead has been appointed for God’s purpose and timing.

Her central point is that believing God has a plan makes it easier to accept closed doors, even when the reasons are never made clear. Living fully surrendered to God’s ways helps a person watch for the open doors He has prepared. Cheek writes that a day eventually comes when we are grateful for the doors He closed, because we see again how God orders our steps toward the plans He has made.

The post is built around Matthew 7:7-8 and Jeremiah 29:11, which frame its encouragement to keep asking and trusting God’s purposes.

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