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By Lou Coleman-Yeboah
Choose a Door. Door number 1 or Door number 2?
Door #1. Follow the Lord and He will be your provider, your shield, your reward, and your victory. He will give you everything you need to serve Him. He will not only allow you to serve Him, but because of your faith He will walk with you. He will restore your meaning and purpose and He will be your salvation in the midst of wickedness.
Door #2. Don’t believe God. Think He’s hiding something good from you. Believe you can get away with evil. Have faith in the idea, that God is lying about the destructive nature of sin. Let sin rule over you and instead of being priests to the nations you will fill the world with stubbornness, brutality, murder, hatred, division, and eventually every thought in your imagination will be evil.
Now Christ offer some advice.
“Enter by the narrow gate – For wide is the gate and broad is the path that leads to destruction, and many enter through it – Door #2.
But small is the gate and narrow is the way that leads to life, and only a few find it. – Door #1. [Matthew 7:13-14].
I tell you, of all the decisions that God puts before us, there is none more significant, none more important than choosing the right door.
There are only two pathways—one leading to destruction, and the other leading to life. One is readily found; the other must be searched for. One is popular; the other is unpopular. One is easy; the other is difficult. Choose wisely, for your eternal destiny depends on this choice. “Enter!” “Do it now!” Time is running out. The gate will not always be open. The choice is between the way of life and the way of destruction. Let’s make a deal!
Christ beckons one and all with the first word of the text, “Enter!”
May you not be found among the majority – enter through the narrow way. As Moses said long ago: [Deuteronomy 30:19-20] I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing, and the curse. So, choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants, by loving the Lord your God, by obeying His voice, and by holding fast to Him; for this is your life and the length of your days.
