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Choose You This Day Whom You Will Serve… (February 28, 2023)

“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.” (Matthew 7:13-14)

Life can be seen as a series of choices that we must make, some relatively insignificant and inconsequential and others that monumentally will determine our earthly legacy and our eternal destiny. Living in a world befallen with sin and its lethal consequence, our physical bodies will eventually submit to the inevitable reality of death and crumble into dust, but our souls are immortal and imminently bound to spend eternity in one of two places, the paradise of heaven or perdition of hell, depending upon whether or not we have a relationship with Jesus Christ!

You may wisely choose to believe it or foolishly reject its absolute, everlasting truth, but the Bible is the inspired, inerrant, infallible Word of God given to guide our worldly sojourn to salvation and everlasting life, the joyful result of God’s abiding grace. The Holy Scriptures make undeniably clear the fact that ultimately we must opt to travel one of two roads -- the narrow, sparsely-traveled pathway that winds through the pearly gates into God’s heavenly presence, or the wide, heavily-trod course that leads to the lake of fire where Satan will be waiting.

We live in the confines of time and cannot comprehend the spiritual dimension of eternity where we will face forever, eternally secure with the LORD, or apart always from His grace. This life is just a passing vapor, but life after physical death is everlasting. God does not send anyone to hell; they choose that horrible, irreversible destination by rejecting His plan of for our salvation exclusively through faith in Christ, His Son. We must prepare ourselves and others for eternity now by accepting Jesus’ invitation (Matthew 5:24) to “follow me” along the highway to heaven!

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” (John 14:6)




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