The Narrow Path

Matthew 7:13-14
"Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it" (Matthew 7:13-14).

There are a 1,000 ways to hell*. There's the most famous route, hard-living--binge drinking and cocaine sniffing. There's the quieter, less glamorous way: letting self be the center of an ordinary life, whether that be by holding grudges in perpetuity or by habitually gossiping and slandering others.

The interesting element is that in all the different ways a person can destroy himself the destruction already begins on earth. People on alcohol binges are not having fun nor really are the habitual gossips. The path is wide and easy to get on but not always fun to travel on.

The narrow path on the other hand is hard to find and not always easy to stay on, but this is the road that leads to LIFE. Jesus said, "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly" (John 10:10).

Let's choose the hard path. This is the path of joy. This is the place of love. This is the place of life.



*By hell I mean eternal destruction (the complete absence of being) not an eternally burning furnace where God tortures those unworthy of heaven.