Entering Through the Narrow Door

What is the most difficult door you have ever had to step through? Have some of the hardest doorways to go through led you to the most beneficial places?

It is often the case that the most difficult doorways to enter through provide some of the most rewarding destinations and opportunities.

In Luke’s gospel account Jesus “went on his way through towns and villages, teaching and journeying toward Jerusalem. And someone said to him, “Lord, will those who are saved be few?” (Luke 13:22-23, ESV).

Jesus taught them saying, “Strive to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able. When once the master of the house has risen and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, open to us,’ then he will answer you, ‘I do not know where you come from.’” (Luke 13:23-25, ESV).

The narrow door to Jesus is what we must walk through, striving to enter into it, as challenging as this might be. Entering through the narrow door to Jesus opens up the wide expanse of salvation for everyone who crosses the threshold.

May we enter through the narrow door to Jesus and find ourselves in his presence in the wide expanse of his eternal kingdom.

A Collect for the Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, or the Tenth Sunday after Trinity (Proper 16): “Let your continual mercy, O Lord, cleanse and defend your Church; and, because it cannot continue in safety without your help, protect and govern it always by your goodness; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).

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