Narrow Door

Luke 13

22 Jesus went through the towns and villages, teaching as he went, always pressing on toward Jerusalem. 23 Someone asked him, “Lord, will only a few be saved?”
He replied, 24 “Work hard to enter the narrow door to God’s Kingdom, for many will try to enter but will fail. 25 When the master of the house has locked the door, it will be too late. You will stand outside knocking and pleading, ‘Lord, open the door for us!’ But he will reply, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’ 26 Then you will say, ‘But we ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.’ 27 And he will reply, ‘I tell you, I don’t know you or where you come from. Get away from me, all you who do evil.’”

The door is narrow, and many will try to enter the kingdom of God without having fully obeyed the Gospel of Christ. They will exclaim, “Lord, Lord,” and He will reply, “I don’t know you.” May my love for Jesus be expressed in my obedience to the WHOLE Gospel, and may my life be different because of that Gospel.