Luke 13:24
“Strive to enter through
the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and not be able.”
Everyone has to begin with this struggle for self,
and striving to enter in at the narrow gate is a picture of the struggle.
Anything that does not enter in at the narrow gate (for example: selfishness,
self-interest, self-indulgence) ends in destruction.. Self-indulgence is a
refusal to struggle, a refusal to make ourselves fit. We must be right
ourselves before we can help others to be right. [Ed: this does not mean we are
unrighteous if others are prodigal…]
If you make a moral struggle and gain a moral
victory, you will be a benefit to all you come across, whereas if you do not
struggle, you act as a moral pollution…. if you refuse to struggle, everyone
else is weakened…if you don’t overcome the tendency to spiritual sluggishness
and self-indulgence, you are a hindrance to all around you… You never get
through alone. “Strive to enter through the narrow gate.” If you struggle to get through, others
are stronger and better for knowing you.
Excerpts from Oswald Chambers
Daily Devotional Bible
From The Place of
Help
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