Narrow Path

The pursuit of God and His will for your brief life here leads to soul fulfillment. It is unmatched by the world’s promises of fame, fortune, and ego inflation.

When your soul aligns with the Creator, your path is a straight line to Christ. Daily, you look for ways to show off the fruits of the Holy One; patience, kindness, love, and generosity.

The life of the wide gate leads to a pursuit of ego-centrism, fame, acquisition of materials, and the fleshly desires. At the end of this wide gate, we are left with feelings of emptiness and boredom. Material gains last a moment; then the discontentment of wanting more shows itself again. Often this discontentment leads to depression and anxiety.

The narrow gate Christ paves for us is a pursuit of unconditional love, kindness, simplicity and abundance of joy. The heart pursues His Spirit and the soul silences. This is a calm that is unrecognizable to our bodies. The body craves food, sex, and sleep. The soul craves stillness and fulfillment in the Lord.

The wide gate plagues us daily with wanting, pursuing and gaining fame, fortune and materials.

Christ tells us, “Enter through the narrow gate, for the gate is wide and the road broad that leads to destruction, and those who enter through it are many. How narrow the gate and constricted the road that leads to life. And those who find it are few.” Matthew 7: 13, 14

The pursuit of the narrow path leads to rest and stillness of the mind, body and soul. The pursuit of the wide gate, fame, fortune, all manner of physical pleasures leads to anxiety and a deflated feeling of emptiness.

Great mental health begins within the soul and exudes outward. The view of self as a conduit for the Spirit brings about joy, love and peace.