The Narrow Road

Being a Christian means we follow Christ.

Jesus invites us to follow Him by denying ourselves and taking up our cross daily.

The cross is the key to following Jesus. It’s simple but so, so challenging!

It’s easy to misunderstand “denying yourself.”

It doesn’t mean “making your life difficult” and it’s not “works.”

It’s accepting to lay aside the right to our lives and accept the will of God. It invites a deep work of God in one’s life that marks you.

This is lived out in the circumstances of everyday life…

Lord my life is not my own… what is your will? Let me decrease and you increase.

This is what the Holy Spirit wants to teach us… to discern and accept the will of God for our lives.

So is it easy – absolutely not!

But is it worth it – absolutely yes!

The way of the cross is almost a “forgotten road”…but when we find it we realize that it’s the only road for a Christian to walk.

There is no other way to follow Jesus… the narrow road.

  • Mark Saunders

Isaiah 54:17

No weapon formed against you shall prosper, And every tongue which rises against you in judgment You shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, And their righteousness is from Me,” Says the Lord.

Isaiah 54:17 (NKJV)

Psalm 63:1

New International Version

Psalm 63

A psalm of David. When he was in the Desert of Judah.

You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water.

Psalm 63:1

Psalm 63

You, God, are my God,
    earnestly I seek you;
I thirst for you,
    my whole being longs for you,
in a dry and parched land
    where there is no water.

I have seen you in the sanctuary
    and beheld your power and your glory.
Because your love is better than life,
    my lips will glorify you.
I will praise you as long as I live,
    and in your name I will lift up my hands.
I will be fully satisfied as with the richest of foods;
    with singing lips my mouth will praise you.

On my bed I remember you;
    I think of you through the watches of the night.
Because you are my help,
    I sing in the shadow of your wings.
I cling to you;
    your right hand upholds me.

Those who want to kill me will be destroyed;
    they will go down to the depths of the earth.
They will be given over to the sword
    and become food for jackals.

But the king will rejoice in God;
    all who swear by God will glory in him,
    while the mouths of liars will be silenced.