13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.REFLECTIONSWritten by Brian MacgeorgeIn just these two verses Jesus gives his disciples and the onlooking crowds a word picture of life-and-death significance. It is a picture of two gates, one narrow and the other wide. Each gate is the entrance to one of two roads, one narrow and the other broad. The narrow road leads to life and the broad road leads to destruction. The actual teaching probably does not surprise us; we have had it before. It looks a bit like what we may know as “Two Ways To Live”, where we are encouraged to choose one way over the other. However, now for the first time I am seeing something new in this passage. My attention is drawn to the fact that Jesus does not offer a choice of one road or the other; from the outset he gives a clear instruction to “Enter through the narrow gate”, the path to life. As a reader of this instruction today, I know that Jesus died to purchase forgiveness for those who trust everything to Him. Having paid that price for our redemption, is it any wonder then that Jesus insists that we find that gate and trust Him along the narrow road that leads to life?Please pray with me that we will not waste the forgiveness that Jesus bought for us with his blood and that by following Him we will walk that narrow path to the life he has prepared for us and desires deeply that we obtain.ABOUT THE AUTHORBrian is part of our Fairfield Morning Churches and enjoys 4WD touring.