"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 will find it." Jesus (Matthew 7:13-14, NIV)

Are you narrow minded? Most of us would be quick to claim the exact opposite. Why, we would never be narrow minded - we are broad minded. Our minds are open, open, open! So open, at times, that we are in danger of having all of those fantastic brains just slipping clean out of our heads.

There are some areas that we need to be narrow minded. We need to be narrow minded when it comes to sin. God defines sin and He does so very explicitly, so why do we sometimes act as if sin is open for debate? And why, when it comes to the path that God has laid out, do we act as if the wide path is better?

You have heard all of the popular arguments: "We are all going to the same place, just by different paths" or, "I'm OK, you're OK" or "It's just an alternate lifestyle". These are all fine and good in our broad-minded, politically correct religious world... but it was Jesus who said to take the narrow way, not some narrow minded, bigoted preacher.

There's one more thing to consider when it comes to that narrow path that Jesus said few would find: He also said that those who looked for it would find it! Maybe Jesus isn't so narrow minded after all. Maybe He just wants to spare us from the pain and eternal loss that has always been found on that broad path. The "many paths to the same place" arguments sound so enticingly open-minded. But Jesus recommends the narrow path. Which will you choose?

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find... for everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds... I am the Way...,  Matthew 7:7-8, John 14:6, NIV