The Narrow Door to Life

 Zechariah 7-9; Luke 13 

“…unless you repent, you too will all perish…If it bears fruit next year, fine! If not, then cut it down…Make every effort to enter through the narrow door because many, I tell you, will try to enter and not be able to.”

Luke 13:5, 9, 24

The cost of following Jesus is high; however, the cost of not following Jesus is higher. Jesus responded to the deaths of Jews by both persecution and the collapse of a tower in the same way. Death, apart from God’s redemption, is eternal separation from God, the life-giver. The cost of entering through the narrow door is not only repentance for our sins, but also the complete surrender of our will and life to Jesus. This narrow door to the life that is eternal will cost us everything. For those who know God’s salvation, death is not the end, but only a doorway into eternity. 

Life is too valuable to be wasted on self-indulgence and the accumulation of things we can’t take with us when we die. Repentance opens the door to a new life in Christ that never ends.

“Lord Jesus, you are my life. All that I have is yours, for your glory.”