Enter By the Narrow Gate

If you have ever traveled through Redmond Oregon heading to Bend Oregon you may have stopped at a place called Dry Canyon. It is a little rest area with trails to stretch yours and your dogs legs from being cramped in a car for a while. On this trail is a bridge that takes you to the other side. This bridge looks large when looking right at it, but if you look at it from a top-down view you would see how really small this bridge is to the surrounding canyon that it connects to. There are signs all around for people and their animals. These signs are warnings to stay on the path if not you will fall off the cliff and well, die. From what I read there have been many dogs that have ran and not knowing it was a cliff and fell to their death. These signs are to keep us on the right path and to keep us from death. “Thomas said to Jesus, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”” (John 14:5–6). Just as the physical path we walk in this life, we too have spiritual paths with spiritual signs. We only need to heed what they are. The scripture explains of the coming of Christ and what He was here to do. To live a righteous life, die, be buried for our sin and trespasses against God. The biggest sign of all wasn’t that He died. It was because He didn’t stay dead. He rose from the grave, defeating death, defeating sin, He is our reigning King. Our path to the Father, to salvation isn’t through enlightenment, it isn’t through pleasure, it isn’t through another religion, it’s the narrow path we choose. That choice is Christ. We have to make a choice, just like walking on the path in Dry Canyon. Are we going to make the choice to follow the signs and live or are we going to choose to ignore the signs and take the wide path that will lead to our destruction?

Have you fully given your life to following Jesus Christ? If you haven’t, why not?

What are some reasons that take you off the path?

How do you get back on the path?

Do you find the path easy or difficult?
 

King David, the man God said was after His own heart writes a song. At the end of it, it says, “You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.” (Psalm 16:11) I encourage you to read all of Psalm 16. God has made known to us the path of Life through Jesus Christ. In His presence there is a fullness of JOY! I pray you choose the narrow path.