TUESDAY March 25th
Matthew 7:13-14
‘“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.”’
The bible has much to say about our Christian Walk, it talks about the walk, it gives advice about the walk and warns us as where not to walk. And as I ended the previous devotion, we start this one with the verse that tells us that we have just two options: either to walk on the broad road which leads to destruction or to walk on the narrow road that leads to life.
Durham is a beautiful city, as far as I am concerned it is one of the best, even before we moved up this way, I used to love visiting Durham. A few weeks back I was walking in Durham and for the first time I suddenly noticed a narrow passageway and decided to see where it went to and found out in doing so that it led up to the cathedral area. And guess what, it was quiet, the crowds were going through the busier thoroughfares and very few seemed to have found or noticed this narrow passageway. And this is exactly the way Jesus described what happens in this world, most are on the busy thoroughfares and few on the narrow way.
We who are on the narrow way are so because we have accepted Jesus as our Saviour, and although the walk will sometimes be difficult, maybe even feel lonely at times, it will lead us to life, and as we will see, we will have a wonderful travelling companion with us, Jesus himself.
So, the next few devotions are intended to help us and to encourage us as we walk this narrow path.
I just mentioned that I had suddenly noticed a narrow passageway in Durham, and it takes me back to the moment when I discovered the narrow way, the day that I committed my life to the Lord Jesus Christ and I made the transition from darkness to light, from being dead in trespasses and sins to being made alive again and from changing direction, from the broad way to the narrow way. It is a journey that so far has lasted for 56 years, a walk that every day is bringing me nearer to my eternal home, a walk in which I have needed every spiritual resource to enable me to keep on track. Can I ask you as you read this devotion, which road are you on, if on the broad way then to remind you that it leads to destruction, if like me you are on the narrow way, keep going, keep your eyes fixed upon Jesus, fixed on the eternal hope that you have now received of arriving one day in the presence of our wonderful Saviour.
Here are a couple of other verses to end this devotion.
Proverbs 5:21
‘For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and he ponders all his paths.’
Isaiah 2:3‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.’