---"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."
Like many people today, the Israelites in Jesus’ time believed they were destined for Heaven. They mistakenly thought that to join God’s family, good works and an intellectual faith were all that He required.
To help us grasp the truth about how to enter His Father’s kingdom, Jesus described two roads leading in opposite directions. One is a broad highway, where most people travel. Theirs is an easy journey, as it requires few commitments and allows all kinds of philosophies. Because just about everything is acceptable, each person is free to be self-indulgent and choose whatever seems best. The broad path promises to give us whatever we desire, but in the end, it delivers nothing of lasting value.
The other road is narrow. It has a small entrance, because there is only one way to be reconciled to God—through faith in Christ. Traveling on this path requires a commitment to the Savior and a lifestyle of dependence, sacrifice, and trust.
Once we belong to Jesus, the Holy Spirit empowers us for everything that is required on the way of righteousness: loving God with our whole heart, loving our neighbors, and carrying out the Lord’s purposes. His plans are to take precedence over our own. In contrast to the disappointments on the broad road, every divine promise is guaranteed.
Each of us must choose which path to take: the wide one that ends in hopelessness and eternal separation from the Lord, or the narrow one leading to life everlasting. If you desire a relationship with God through Jesus, just ask Him, He will accept your prayer of confession and repentance out of your sincere heart. --IN TOUCH~~ (Side Note)= When our Lord Jesus was nailed to a Cross at Calvary, to die for the sins of the whole world, (if you accept Him as your Lord and Savior), what did He cry out? ""Eloi, Eloi. lama sabachthani!" --which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken Me?" Jesus is God-Man. He never ceased being One with the Father. Please ask the Father, through Jesus, to forgive you of your sins and be assured of spending eternity with Him. Why did Jesus go through such a brutal death? 'Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.' Jesus fulfilled the Old Testament Law. "IT IS FINISHED!"<http://youtu.be/J04SdL-SI7U>
Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." [John 14:6]
