WHICH WAY WILL YOU GO?

“Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it. (Matthew 7:13-14 NKJV)

Growing up my mother use to say a certain phrase that just got under my skin, whenever I asked to do what my friends were doing. She could never just give me a straight no but always said. "So if your friends jump off a bridge, are you following"? I could never understand why she would ask such a silly question. I always wanted to say; of course not! How crazy do you think I am? But as off the wall as this comment may seem, it is exactly what many of us as believers do. We jump off the figurative bridges of life following other people, right into destruction.

Many times we see other believers relaxing their standards in favor of fame, love or popularity, and get sucked into the success we perceive they have, not realizing the destruction that awaits them. We let the "seeming" of their lives attract us, leading us right into death traps as we blindly follow them. But the question is why?

As believers we are admonished various times and in various ways to live holy & right before God and man, and to avoid the type of living that leads to calamity in our lives; yet many of us find ourselves right there. But why? Well the broad gate seems appealing. Those that are on the broad are often blinded to the fact that their path is detrimental to their lives. They are enjoying the pleasures of their flesh, while neglecting the responsibility of following after the spirit and ignoring the state they are really in. You see walking in the flesh is easy, it's natural and takes no real work, so many find themselves in that way.

But it takes a desire and persistency to look seek out and stay on the narrow path of life. The word clearly teaches that they are many who won't find it, but it's clear some will and their end result will be life. As you journey through life don't look at the easy gate and way that everyone else is on, but look for the path less traveled, the path that leads to life.