John 10:9 I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.

Doors are for gaining access. When you go to the bank and enter, you know why you are there. If you go to a grocery store and enter, you know why you are there.

Just about every door you choose to open comes with an expectation of what is to be found inside.

Jesus is The Door. What do you expect on the other side? Salvation? Sure but look at what Jesus says about us, we get to come and go. Since we entered by “The Door”, why would we go out? Maybe it is because the pasture is only on this side.

We all understand the purpose of a pasture. It is where the sheep eat.

John 21:17 He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.”

We come and go through “The Door”. Like Peter we are told to feed His sheep over and over again.

Matthew 4:4 But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

We go in to receive the Word which we are to feed to the sheep when we go out to the pasture.

We do not know what other words will be given after we have fed the sheep. We have to go back in to receive the Word afresh without knowing what that Word might be until we receive it from God.

This is faith, going in to receive without expectation.

Romans 16:25-27 English Standard Version

Doxology

25 Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages 26 but has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith— 27 to the only wise God be glory forevermore through Jesus Christ! Amen.

I think Paul makes it clear here that obedience of faith is to glorify God.

We are human, we have not been perfected yet and as such we are subject to our own personal insecurities and emotional trauma. 

Psalm 23:4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

Once we understand the purpose of the rod and the staff we may come to terms with how we can be comforted in times of trouble, being human. That is a matter of experiencing God more than it is a matter of just believing.

Isaiah 61:1-2 English Standard Version

The Year of the Lord’s Favor

1 The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me
to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
2 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;

With those words Jesus began His earthly ministry. By our obedience of faith that ministry continues today glorifying God.