ROAD BLOCKS

The Narrow and Wide Gates                                                                                                          

^{MATHEW 7:13}  

“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

In my insufficient experience in this "rat-race" called life- there are two things that stand-out to me: The narrow gate (trying to please Him, serve Him and in all essence live for Him) and The wide gate (the easy way of living, doing whatever I please, serving myself; in all essence living for me.) 
Oddly enough, when I was young- His Sovereign Hand was with me. Although I was a believer and I had faith, I was most certainly Hell bound, disregarding God and His Way, never taking the time to acknowledge my desperate need for a Savior. I didn't walk by faith; and as a result I wasn't living out my faith to say the least. It's only natural though... going with currents of life, doing whatever you please or whatever you see fit. Of this aspect of life- the Proverb is true: "There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end results are death." Kind of an inconvenient road block in your life's path right?! So in other words, all our natural pursuits, and hunting and gathering tendencies (which are embedded with underlined selfishness from selfish ambition) I can personally see, know and understand why we live this way. It's literally natural, a part of our nature; coded into our sinful D.N.A strand. It wasn't until the Good Lord saved my life on that fateful day interrupting or better yet disrupting the natural course of "life" then death. To then death and now life. What I mean is "as for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world..." Leisurely walking down this broad road that leads to destruction some of us aren't as blessed as I was to encounter a Road Block.  Now that I've entered the narrow gate I can't help but notice there are hazards and road blocks on this road as well. Two big ones are sin and doubt. We have to earnestly and diligently seek Him, so that when these road blocks come up in our lives- we'll let Jesus take the wheel; and drive us home. Amen