Choosing the Right Road

Matthew 7:13-14 NLT

“You can enter God’s Kingdom only through the narrow gate. The highway to hell is broad, and its gate is wide for the many who choose that way. But the gateway to life is very narrow and the road is difficult, and only a few ever find it.”

Jesus gives His sermon on the mount in Matthew chapters 5,6, and 7 and then concludes with a few options on what He has just laid out in this sermon. In this example He offers two roads, you can take the easy road but end up in spiritual death or you can take the less traveled road and find eternity with life and peace.

It is like an evangelist that comes into a church and holds several meetings. He is not just trying to give some encouraging words for several evenings; he is looking for commitments to follow Jesus.

Jesus makes it clear, we can only enter God’s Kingdom, here on earth and eventually in heaven, by taking the road that looks like it could be challenging, have some difficulties, maybe some rough patches but have Jesus right by our side and holding our hand all the way.

Or we can choose the road that everyone else is taking. The road that looks wide open and easy to navigate. It looks easy, and a lot of people are heading down that road, but the end of that road is a dead end.

Jesus has laid out all the prerequisites for this new journey in Matthew 5-7, so there is no guess work, not really, He fills in the unforeseen places by guiding us through them. It takes trust, and commitment for the narrow road, but that is the way to true life in God’s Kingdom.

Prayer:

Lord, I will follow You. Knowing that You will be with me, I will not fear, I will not worry of what I cannot see, I will not fret even if the road narrows. I will follow You. In Your name Lord Jesus, Amen.