Matthew 7:13-14 (ESV)
“13 "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.
14 For the gate is NARROW and “THE WAY IS HARD” that leads to LIFE, and those who find it are FEW.”
Many people have differing opinions about how the CHRIST HONORING LIFE should be lived? Some of those in the pulpits around “this world” are being complicit in the culture of “easy believism” by proclaiming that if we come to JESUS, then everything will be easy and our problems will all be taken care of?!?
Just because a preacher says something it doesn’t mean that it is TRUTH! Acts 17:11 says “Now these Jews (in Berea) were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, EXAMINING THE SCRIPTURES DAILY to see if these things were so.” We are CALLED to “STUDY” HIS WORD, not only by going to a church house and listening to what is being preached, but by allowing ALMIGHTY GOD change the course of our lives through the POWER of HIS WORD!
JESUS, OUR CREATOR, says “THE WAY IS HARD” that leads to LIFE! HE didn’t promise a private jet ministry, or a life free from sickness or disease. HE didn’t promise that we would always take the path that has the least resistance. HE didn’t guarantee that HE wouldn’t lead us around the difficulties that others face! However, HE did promise to never leave us, nor forsake us, if we followed HIM!
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we came to JESUS and all of our troubles vanished and life became “EASY”? But JESUS says in Matthew 7:13 that “...For the gate is WIDE and the way is EASY that leads to DESTRUCTION, and those who enter by it are MANY”! Just because we are experiencing resistance in “this world” doesn’t mean that we are on the wrong path! As a matter of fact, “THE WAY IS HARD” is what OIR CREATOR PROMISED! Are you so special that HE will make exceptions for you??? Did GOD make exceptions for JESUS, the sinless, spotless LAMB OF GOD???
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