Friday, January 17, 2014 “NARROW GATES ...” SCRIPTURE: Matthew 7:13, 14 If you have a choice between a narrow door and a wide one, between a narrow road and a broad one, chances are you will choose the wide one, and the broad. Human will craves freedom and “elbow room”. It also likes the security of other people, and usually the more, the better. This is true in spiritual journeying, too. That narrow road seems so confining, so threatening somehow ... and so many more people are thronging through the wide gates of humanism, agnosticism, and all the varying, diverse cults of philosophy that open everywhere today: the mainstream of traffic - the intellectualist, proud and self-made; the bohemian, fickle in his fad, independent of responsibility, free of any law. We want to be where the people are. And Christ knew this. In His typically realistic way, He warned that there would never be many who would go in at the narrow gate, whereas a gate that was wide and easy would always be crowded. Yet we know what it is we search for, and where it is we go. God has promised us the very things which the world is frantically seeking today . . . peace of mind, motivation, a reason for living, and confidence in the midst of chaos. Only those traveling the narrow road, know how easy it really is with Christ beside them. Prayer: Lord, it is a temptation to go where the multitudes are going. Yet I know that they are not finding peace, or assurance. O God, I thank Thee for Thy Son and for the way You have given to us.AMEN
Posted on: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 14:00:02 +0000
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