Psalm 24:7-10 (NIV)

7 Lift up your heads, O you gates; be lifted up, you ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in.
8 Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle.
9 Lift up your heads, O you gates; lift them up, you ancient doors that the King of glory may come in.
10 Who is he, this King of glory? The Lord Almighty — He is the King of glory.

This passage speaks volumes to the responsibility we have in God’s Kingdom. Jacob witnessed something that confounded him. He saw a stairway leading from Earth to Heaven and witnessed angels ascending and descending on it. I believe Jacob missed it. He declared that place to be the place that Heaven came to Earth. I think God was trying to show him that he was the place where Heaven touched Earth.
This verse calls us to lift up our heads. We are called to keep our focus on God. Jesus said that if we have seen Him then we have seen the Father. He is the image of the invisible God. He did only what He saw the Father do. His focus was on God all the time.
We are called gates. What do gates do? They let things in and they keep things out. According to this passage we are to let the King of glory in. I can go on for days on what all this entails but simply put; we were created to release the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth. Kingdom means the King’s domain. He has chosen to invade Earth through His children. Jesus was the perfect example of this. He was about His Father’s business. We are to be about our Father’s business.
You may ask why there is so much tragedy in the world and why God would allow such things. The facts are that we live in a fallen world that longs for redemption and God has created us to release His environment to change the environment around us. God wants everything that is in Heaven to be on Earth and He wants everything that is not in Heaven not to be on Earth. We are the gates that are responsible for that. If we would rise to the responsibility, shift all of our focus to the Lord, and do the things we see Jesus do then we would see the world around us transform into His world.

Pastor Justin