The Narrow Road

re you facing a difficult decision? Are you unsure what God wants you to do?

Have you known a time when you chose the easiest path because the right one seemed too difficult?

Recently the TV show Mythbusters discovered that making right hand turns in your car is more fuel efficient than left hand turns. Who would have thought?  To prove this, they set a course in which they delivered four parcels around a busy city. The second time they made the deliveries they made only right hand turns. Although it meant they travelled further and took more time, they only used 4 gallons of fuel compared to 6.8 gallons.

This started me thinking!

As Christians we are never promised that life will be easy. We’re not promised that making good, godly choices will be simple, or come naturally. In fact if we read through Scripture we often see that choosing God’s way has an element of sacrifice – and often we can substitute the words pain or heartache for sacrifice! Just like the delivery vans on Mythbusters, making the right choice may mean that things take longer or are not the most direct or most obvious way of doing things – yet making Godly choices is more fuel efficient; better for the environment. Following Christ is, in the larger scheme of things, better for us. You could say it is “soul-efficient”!

Matthew 7: 13 – 14 says “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.”

Today, let’s each seek to choose the narrow road; the right-hand turns; the Godly choices. Let’s seek God’s way and then follow it – whatever the cost.

By Liz Gainsford