Matthew 7:13-14 – 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.
The road that is broad is known to all.
The road that is broad leads to comfort, wealth, and familiarity.
The road that is broad leads to drinking and lighting up with friends only to realize that the empty feeling in your gut is still there.
The road that is broad leads to looking for fulfillment in people, where casual sex leaves you feeling worse about yourself than you did before.
The road that is broad leads to the god of ambition, where you are too busy to care about anyone else.
The road that is broad leads to isolation and loneliness.
The road that is broad leads to insecurity, where women can never be beautiful enough and men can never stand up and truly lead.
The road that is broad leads to a world where as long as it doesn’t directly affect us, it’s fine. Apathy rolls off our tongues with ease.
The road that is broad leads to shame and guilt. A land where we are uniformed in the chains that we bounded ourselves with.
The road that is broad leads to death.
But the narrow path leads to a family who’s never heard Jesus’ name before.
The narrow path leads to talking to people who speak a different language than you.
The narrow path leads to bringing Jesus to a family who just sacrificed their favorite child to the Devil in hopes of gaining prosperity.
The narrow path leads to women realizing their worth and beauty and men becoming empowered with strength and bravery.
The narrow path leads to a hard day where you must confront your fears.
The narrow path leads to a better understanding of how God intended community to look like.
The narrow path leads to rocks in your shoes, sweat on your face, and a child’s hand in yours.
The narrow path leads to spending weeks ripping nails out of wooden boards.
The narrow path leads to embracing awkwardness and speaking with words that only the Holy Spirit could’ve provided.
The narrow path leads to life.
