Repairing the temple doors

I was reading this morning in chapter 29 of 2nd Chronicles - the account of how King Hezekiah purifies the temple and reinstates worship of God. (His father, King Ahaz, had led the nation into idol worship.) I was struck in particular by verse 3,  where it says, He opened the doors of the temple and repaired them, because it’s such a good picture of the process that needs to happen when an individual or a group of people returns to the Lord. If someone has let their relationship with God grow dry, if it’s been a while since they opened the Bible or spent time with God in prayer, the first and very necessary step is to open up the door and get back into God’s presence again.

But the next step is to “repair” those doors and address the issues that caused them to fall into disuse in the first place. Was it busyness or laziness that caused your time with God to be neglected? Did something or someone else become more important? Did a difficult situation or an apparently unanswered prayer cause you to withdraw from the Lord? Those things need to be “repaired” so that coming into God’s presence becomes a joyful and regular occurrence again.

Is there a "door" that needs to be opened up or repaired in your life this week?