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7. Enter by the strait gate. For narrow is the way and strait is the gate that leads to life, and few are those who find it. But wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to ruin, and there are many who walk on it. (Chap. 27:7
Christ explains, corrects
and deepens the word:
“... narrow is the way and strait is the gate that leads to life” means that in each one who endeavors to walk the narrow path to life the darkling makes itself known and shows him – as it showed Me, as Jesus of Nazareth – the treasures and comforts of this world. Each day anew, the satanic should be resisted and opposed. Whoever is not watchful will be servile to it.
Recognize that every person who takes the first steps toward life at first feels confined and restricted, until he has made a final decision. For what he thought and did in human terms until now, he should now cease to do.
The first steps lead into the unknown – they are called belief and trust. Until the first steps are taken, the path to life is strait and narrow. The first hurdles that should be overcome on the path to the heart of God are called: Change your way of thinking and cease your old human habits! Repent, forgive, ask for forgiveness and sin no more! For every individual this means a personal effort and a readjustment of everything that until now was customary to him.
However, the one who perseveres with My strength will leave the narrow path and reach the great road of light into the kingdom of the inner being, on which he will strive toward the gateway into absoluteness, into the life in God, with those who journey into the light.
The person is tested each day: for or against God.
The one who decides against Me, by keeping all human comforts and everything that makes him human, will not be led into temptation on the wide dark road, since he has given himself up to the tempter. Many, indeed, follow this road to ruin. They are not tested like those who walk the narrow path to life.
The one who has given himself up to the tempter thereby also gives his unrestricted assent to what he has to harvest on account of his seed.
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