TEXT: LUKE 13:23-35
Key verse: “Strive to enter in
at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall
not be able” (Luke 13:24).
Abraham Lincoln, in a speech he
made in 1863, said: “We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of
heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we
have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown. But
we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us
in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly
imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were
produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with
unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming
and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.”
Even now, this has been the
attitude of many people. Unfortunately, some Christians are among them, living
without heaven in focus. Based on the character of people, Jesus was certain
that there would be few who would be saved. But He cautioned: “Strive to enter
in at the strait gate.” For Him, it would take earnestness, focus and
determination to make heaven.
Jesus, while answering the
enquirer’s question: “are there few that be saved,” was point-blank that those
who merely wish they would make heaven but would not do anything about the
salvation of their soul, could never get there. Many people, today, do not take
this warning seriously. Some will even seek to enter through another way other
than the right channel, while others will make attempt when it is too late and
as such shall not be able to enter.
Earnestly give serious thought
to your relationship with God. How much striving have you exerted to get into
His Kingdom? Are you merely wishing you will be there? Make the most of today’s
opportunity to enter through sincere repentance, faith in Christ and God’s kind
of righteousness.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Heaven has
no space for those who refuse to get saved.
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