In Holy Scripture, Matthew 7:13-14, there is a reference to a narrow gate and road that leads to life, read it for yourself. However, in the same passage, we are told of a wide gate and a broad road that leads to destruction. What a conundrum contained within so few words. That Scripture also tells us that “many enter through” the wide gate and broad road. The only conclusion one can reach is that many are without concern regarding where the wide and broad can take them.
The passage could shed light on the dimensions of the gates and roads, for they are wide and broad to accommodate the many entering through. Why not go where many are going when there are accommodations made for the masses of people? The greatest take away we get from this Scripture, although these gates and roads accommodate many, destruction is the destination.
The passage starts off instructing us to “Enter through the narrow gate”. Be careful not to miss the narrow entrance by paying attention to where many are going. It is not hard to miss the small gate and narrow road because many are passing them up headed for the wide and broad. When you are a follower of people, you overlook the little things, which leads to the path of life. When you know God and read HIS Word, you search for the narrow gates and roads, even if they are hard to find. One sign of the location, many will be passing by the narrow entrances. So look for them in the details of God’s Word and be led to life.
The only thing trying to stop you from finding the narrow gate and road is the enemy of God. The enemy will use people, money, and your past to block your vision.
The enemy knows he cannot steer you down the path of many, when you call on Jesus. The Lord makes the enemy flee, and all evil efforts cease, in his attempt to block the narrow entrance. This is when the enemy reaches their conclusion in your life and realizes they must move out of your way.
The peace of God protects, empowers, and gives you authority over the enemy. Find HIS narrow gate and road for they lead to life. Entering the narrow path of the few will determine who walks with you and whom you allow to walk away. There is no stress, anger, and sadness on the narrow path. We learn to shift attention from what they think about us, to who we are in Christ. God’s Word gives us easy access to the narrow gate that leads to the narrow road, but few find them. AMEN
Matthew 7:13-14
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The Narrow and Wide Gates
13 “ “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.”
2 Timothy 3
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3 “But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.
6 They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, 7 always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. 8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these teachers oppose the truth. They are men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected. 9 But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.
A Final Charge to Timothy
10 You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, 11 persecutions, sufferings—what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. 12 In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, 13 while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. 14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, 15 and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God[a] may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.”
Proverbs 23:27
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27 “for an adulterous woman is a deep pit, and a wayward wife is a narrow well.”