Scripture Reading
Matthew 7:13-14
"Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few."
Reflection
The narrow way is not a punishment — it is the only way to life. Wide paths accommodate everything we carry; the narrow gate requires us to set some things down. What we let go of on the way in — pride, comfort, self-sufficiency — turns out to be what was keeping us from life. Ask God today what you are still carrying that will not fit through.
Prayer for Today
Oh Father, the depth of the riches both of Your wisdom and knowledge are unsearchable. Your judgments are unfathomable and Your ways are unable to be found out.
How I thank You that You searched me out, lifted me up out of the miry clay and set my feet upon the rock of my salvation. To You be all glory forever and ever.
Lord, I know that my love for You is not as strong as I would like it to be, but it is my deep desire to present my spirit, soul and body to be a holy and acceptable sacrifice to You, a living sacrifice, so that in every area of my life I may do only those things that are pleasing to You.
Help me to keep my old self-life in the place of death. May I grow in grace and mature in the faith and draw ever closer to You with every passing day. And as I rest in You, I pray that day by day I may be increasingly conformed into the likeness of Your Son, my Saviour, Jesus Christ, in Whose name I pray,
Amen.
How I thank You that You searched me out, lifted me up out of the miry clay and set my feet upon the rock of my salvation. To You be all glory forever and ever.
Lord, I know that my love for You is not as strong as I would like it to be, but it is my deep desire to present my spirit, soul and body to be a holy and acceptable sacrifice to You, a living sacrifice, so that in every area of my life I may do only those things that are pleasing to You.
Help me to keep my old self-life in the place of death. May I grow in grace and mature in the faith and draw ever closer to You with every passing day. And as I rest in You, I pray that day by day I may be increasingly conformed into the likeness of Your Son, my Saviour, Jesus Christ, in Whose name I pray,
Amen.
Amen.