I have a preacher friend who tells this story and I’m not sure that it’s true, but it is a good story and preachers don’t always tell the truth when they have a point they want to make. He said that there was a lady in his church who seemed to oppose him on every issue. It didn’t matter what he said, it didn’t matter what he presented to the church, she was always there in opposition to it and she became to him a thorn in the flesh.
One day he was out visiting in her neighborhood and he decided on a whim to visit with her about this problem. When he drove in front of her house, her car was parked in the driveway and so he had reason to believe that she was home. So he got out, walked up to the front door, and rang the doorbell and nobody came to the door.
When you have visited as long as I have and as long as he had, you can almost sense when somebody is home. And there are times when you ring the doorbell and you knock on the door and you know they are inside but they are not answering that door. That happened that day. So he rang the doorbell and she didn’t come to the door, so he knocked on the door. Sometimes doorbells don’t work. But she still she didn’t come. So he did what we preachers do every once in a while. He went to the back door. Maybe she was in the back of the house. Maybe she couldn’t hear up front. So he goes to the back door and knocks and still she doesn’t come. And he just knows she is in that house. So he comes back to the front door and he knocks on the door and then without even thinking he just dropped down on his knees and looked through the keyhole in that door. And guess what he saw? He saw an eye peering right back at him.
And he said to her, after she opened the door, “Isn’t it interesting that the first time we got down on our knees together, we saw eye to eye.” You know if we prayed more and argued less, we might see eye to eye more.