You can enter God’s Kingdom only through the narrow gate. The highway to hell is broad, and its gate is wide for the many who choose that way. But the gateway to life is very narrow and the road is difficult, and only a few ever find it. Matt 7:13-14.
The Narrow Way Part 2
The strait road is paved with humility and self-discipline, steps made by faith lit up by the word of God. It is to turn away from pride (the refusal to learn) and live ever as a student asking, seeking and knocking; allowing God to transform the way you THINK, not act. After all, every action you take is a result of what fills your heart.
Allow God to lead you down the ‘strait' path – the confined path of nonconformity. Be yourself, empowered by the Holy Spirit, called with a tailor-made purpose and walk out your journey. To walk the narrow path is to awaken and engage Christ face to face. I’ve read that not many find the strait path or enter through the narrow gate… but I think what happens is that this is a road you must walk for yourself. Your pastor, husband, wife, friend, children, mother or father can’t walk it for you… YOU must put one foot in front of the other and make the journey yourself. Although it may seem lonely, there are others all around you, recovering conformists, who are no longer content to go with the flow, but desire authenticity in their relationship with God and to walk the road of abundant life.
The narrow gate is one you walk through on purpose, deliberate with your steps and intent on your destination. It’s not a gate you walk through on a whim, but a space you enter through prayer and clear thinking. The broad and wide gate is one you wander into, and as I close, Spurgeon says “There is nothing very grand about breadth, after all. And I have noticed one thing: the broadest men I have ever met with in the best sense have always kept to the narrow way, and the narrowest people I know are those who are so fond of the broad way.”
Don’t roam limited by pride, walk straight by faith and purpose, question into that narrow space – it leads to life fully lived.
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