Walking The Walk

"Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.  But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it." ~Matthew 7: 13-14 And there is one final point I'd like you to consider. That road, that narrow road that leads to life that only a few find?  That's the journey of a lifetime.  Although Christians live in this world, it's not our culture that defines how we should live--we live according to God's plan for us.  We live according to God's Word.  And that's a challenging path because it puts us at odds with the declining values of our society. Everyday a Christian has to make the choice to live according to God's plan for our life, or live according to the values of our society.  It's a challenge because it is so much easier to live like everyone else.  Christians are different because we live in a very different world than everyo...

"Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.  But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it." ~Matthew 7: 13-14 We live in a world today that's all about ease.  All about convenience.  We want what we want when we want it.  We've made so many things in life easy.  When given the choice, who wouldn't pick the easy way over the hard way--right? But Jesus reminds us in this verse that the easy way isn't always the best way.  Some things in life don't come easy.  Some things we have to work for.  And often the harder we work for something, the greater the reward.  Ask any successful athlete how they succeeded, and you'll find out it came with great effort, and hours of training and practice.  Ask a concert pianist how much they sacrificed to develop that gift God gave them--the hours they've spend at the piano are lik...

"Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.  But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it." ~Matthew 7: 13-14 These verses were the focus of my daily devotional earlier this week.  It should be very familiar to most Christians.  As I read through them, I realized probably for the first time, just how much is packed in just those two verses.  Another thing I realized is just how relevant these two verses are as we look at where we are in our world today.   We are in a mess today.  I'm fifty-four years old, and in my time on this earth, I've never seen things as bad as they are right now.  We've been divided by political party.  We've been divided by class.  We've been divided by region.  We've been divided by race.  We're now being divided by whether we're vaccinated or not vaccinated.  We've got a po...