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.”
Those are words of Truth. But how often do we think about that? Can we really comprehend what that means? Look at the many different paths that are opening up virtually over night; destructive doctrines, apostasy inside and outside the Church, international persecution of Christians, the list is ever-growing. Consider the following excerpt from John Wesley:
Just as the gate of sin is very wide, so the way of wickedness is very broad. It is not something which the imagination might paint, but that which may be a matter of daily melancholy experience. Nor do you need to go around the earth to find them.
Survey any kingdom, any single country, city, or town. How plenteous is the harvest of wickedness. And it need not be a place that is still overspread with pagan darkness. Look at this one, a country that professes to see the light of the glorious gospel. This has been called a Christian land. But alas! Who will carry the reformation of opinions into our hearts and lives? How innumerable are our sins! Do not the grossest abominations of every kind abound among us from day to day? Do not sins of every sort cover the land as the waters cover the sea? Who can count them? Rather go and count the drops of rain or the sands on the seashore. So wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction! And so many who enter through it!
And how well are we warned to avoid these. For we may otherwise be swept along by the force of so numerous examples conspiring with our own hearts to carry us away. But by the grace of God, we accomplish the difficult and move against the press to enter the narrow way.
How easy it is to follow the crowd along the broad road. The road signs all point to destruction, but we keep going past the exit ramps. Thinking we can go on a little longer before we leave the road. But what we never think about is what happens if we wreck while traveling on that road. What happens if there are no more exit ramps? Now is the time, today is the day, exit the road to destruction and set your path firmly on the narrow road that leads to life.
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John 14:6 “Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.'”
