Walking The Narrow Road

 

It's very difficult to walk away from the world, and leave behind family members, friends, old acquaintances, traditions, spouses, lifestyles, etc.... and be completely opposite of what you were in the past. 

But that's exactly what true disciples are called to do, and Jesus gave us the perfect example of how you can live in this world, still love people, still have fun, still laugh and enjoy life on this earth, but not be OF this world!

While Jesus was teaching a multitude of people in Capernaum, likely inside a house at this time, His  His mother and brothers came to speak with Him, but Jesus shocked the people by proclaiming that His mother and brothers, were those who do the will of the Father in Heaven!

Matthew 12:46-50

"While He was still talking to the multitudes, behold, His mother and brothers stood outside, seeking to speak with Him. Then one said to Him, “Look, Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside, seeking to speak with You.”

But He answered and said to the one who told Him, “Who is My mother and who are My brothers?”  And He stretched out His hand toward His disciples and said, “Here are My mother and My brothers! For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”

These scriptures tell us that doing the will of The Father in Heaven is above even our immediate family! Not that we shouldn't love, honor, and respect our parents or family members, but that we shouldn't love them more than God or put their opinions and advices above doing the will of God!

Matthew 10:34-38

“Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword. For I have come to ‘set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law’; and ‘a man’s enemies will be those of his own household.’ He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.

Being a true disciple of Jesus is walking down a very narrow road!

Matthew 7:13-14

“Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it."

I can't explain to you how difficult it is to walk this narrow road that I'm on! Family and friends not understanding why I don't wanna frequent restaurant's, theme parks and beaches, why I don't go into church buildings every Sunday and Wednesday. 

I don't watch ungodly sitcoms, movies, Facebook and Youtube Reels for hours everyday like many do! I don't talk about, politics, entertainers, sports, or even religion. My mind is fixed and focused on things above, not below! I am Kingdom minded!

But I know my sacrifice will lead to many souls entering into God's Kingdom at the appointed time! Unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed, but IF IT DIES, it produces MANY SEEDS!!!

Paul said it best!

2nd Corinthians 4:7-12

"But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed—always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So then death is working in us, but life in you."

Don't take the broad road with millions of people on it walking to their destruction, oblivious to the biblical prophecies being fulfilled daily, take the road less traveled! The Narrow Road! It may be very difficult, but it will lead your soul into God's Kingdom and eternal life with your Creator!

In Jesus,

Tyrone