The Narrow Road
The narrow road. The hard path. I think I understand it now. We climb higher, pursuing a goal that is beyond sight but still there. Waiting. The path is rough. Stones jut out every step of the way, teasing and tripping. We stumble but we don't fall. We can't fall. It's still there. He's still there. Waiting. Calling. Beckoning us to follow Him. And so we climb higher...up the narrow road. " 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. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it." (Matthew 7:13-14) The Christian walk has never been and will never be easy. (See John 16:33) If it were easy, we would have no need for God. As believers in Jesus Christ (Yeshua), we are called to walk the narrow road, yet so many of us try to avoid the pain, the humiliation, and the struggle that, in reality, defines our faith. Sometimes we act