The Narrow Gate

Thought For Today

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It’s Tuesday morning, the 23rd of July, 2024, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start off in the Book of Matthew 7:13-14:

“Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.”

There is no shortcut into the kingdom of God. There’s no quick fix, there’s no bending the rules. It’s not a case of, “Well I’ll just wing it.” You can’t wing it and you can’t cheat when it comes to the things of God. It’s like an engineer who bribed somebody to forge his qualifications, then all of a sudden he has got a degree in engineering. He gets the job but he can’t produce because he doesn’t know what he’s doing and he ends up jobless. I really want to encourage that young student who is studying. Do not cheat, but work hard and get a degree that is worthwhile, and then go into the world; you’ll be sought after.

Like that young lady who’s trying to buy her driving license. There are many people that will give you a forged driving license if you pay them enough money, but what happens when you get into the motorcar and you don’t know how to drive it? Disaster!

Titus 1:16 says:

“They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him,…”

They say they love Jesus but by their actions, they deny Him. We need to go through the narrow gate because thats the one that will lead us eventually to eternal life.

Jesus bless you and have a lovely day,

Goodbye.