Scripture

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

Observation

Ask and keep on asking, seek and keep on seeking, knock and keep on knocking. God is a good Father who knows how to give good gifts to his children.

We should do to others as we would like them to do to us.

God’s kingdom is only entered through a narrow gate, but the road to hell is wide and easy.

Application

Those who say there are many paths to salvation have never taken Jesus’ own teaching very seriously. He says clearly that He is the only way to the Father (John 14:6). Here He says the gate to the Kingdom is narrow and only a few find it.

It is not that God is rejoicing in condemning sinners to hell. No, He gives good gifts, including salvation and eternal life.

It is just that satan offers so many lies and deceptions that seem more enticing than the way of Jesus. We can go the way of the flesh- “YOLO”- “you only live once” so make it a good life enjoyed to the full. We can try to prove that we are good enough for God by a life of good works. We can swallow the lies of Eastern mysticism, Islam and Hinduism.

Or else we can simply receive what Christ has done for us on the cross.

As G.K. Chesterton has said, “There are many angles at which a man may fall, but only one at which he may stand.”

The ways to hell are many and superficially attractive, but there is only one way to heaven.

Prayer

Thank you, Lord Jesus, for dying on the cross and opening up God’s kingdom for me. Amen.