Today's question is question #3 from the Weird personal study time for this week.
The broad route is often the normal route, the one most people follow. But Jesus taught that the broad route won't lead us to the life he wants us to have:
"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 is the road that leads to life, and only a few find it (Matthew 7:13-14)."
The metaphor of broad and narrow gates implies that there are some things that won't fit through a narrow gate. What might you have to let go of in order to pass through the small gate or walk the narrow road that leads to life?
Share your thoughts in the comments below.
I have always thought of this as narrow in the sense of number of people who can pass through not that I would have to shed "baggage" to FIT through. I prefer this new view. The view of a certain number of people feels like God has predetermined some people won't go through. I prefer the idea God wants me to shed excess "weight" to fit through.
ReplyDeleteScott and I thought we already passed through the gate... Didn't we initially pass through the gate when we "accept" Christ? Now walking down the narrow road through our lives is another story... I think we need to continue seeking and searching how we can best live for Christ and to remember we are here to do HIS WILL - not our own.
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