The Narrow Path

7-30-2009

Focus is a common characteristic amongst successful people. It makes sense. If you want to go from point A to point B, you need focus. Without focus you will go off track. Our spiritual success is exactly the same way. We must stay focused on the ultimate goal. The easy thing to do is get off track. The hard, right thing to do is stay focused on the narrow path of righteousness!

Matthew 7:13-14 says, 13"Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.”

A quote I love to live by and repeat says, “If you do what everyone else does, you will get what everyone else gets.” Be different. Go against the grain! Don’t follow the masses. When you read a history book, you read about pioneers. Pioneers are difference makers. Don’t be a settler! No one reads about the settlers. The masses stray off of the narrow path, and they try to take everyone with them. Be different, and do the hard right thing all of the time! Stay focused on the narrow path that leads to life. Remember, the majority of the people follow the wide path of destruction. Very few follow the narrow path to life!

Application:
1. Read Matthew 7:13-14
2. Which path are you on?