“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 narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.”
Jesus the Encourager begins the closing thoughts of his incredible sermon. He knows that the radical challenges that he has issued regarding the transformed nature of His followers in the upside-down kingdom of heaven will only be taken up by a few. Surely, some must have wondered why he doesn’t make the road home easier. The answer of course, is that He is going to by sending the Paraclete in His place to guide those who believe down the narrow road.
These meditations grow shorter as the time grows closer for our remembrance of the cross and all that it means. Each brings us nearer to a realization that we are fully dependent on the grace and mercy of our Glorious Lord. None of us has the power to change our hearts on our own, we must submit them to the transforming work of the Holy Spirit. The wide road tempts but the Spirit guides us down that rocky narrow way, the only one that leads back home.
LOVE | ACCEPT | FORGIVE 