JANUARY 31

NARROW IS THE WAY

“Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth into life, and few there be that find it.” (Matthew 7:14) 

“Without a way there is no going.
Without the truth there is no knowing.
Without His life there is no living.”

As we pick up the record of Saul (Paul), we read that he desired letters to Damascus, to the synagogue, “that if he found any of THIS WAY, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem”, (Acts 9:2). It was not just any old cult that he was after, but those who were in THIS WAY. All of his efforts were channeled and directed towards persecuting those of a specific way, identified only as THIS WAY.

Jesus clearly stated, “I am the door: by Me if any enter in he shall be saved…” but if he “climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber”, (John 10:9,1).

There are those who claim to be apprehended for THIS WAY, and yet will delve into the writings of the Far East, with its so-called ascended masters, because they say there is a ‘grain of truth’ in the writings. It may even be that the terminology sounds much the same as the Word, and that some of the principles correspond, but it is ‘some other way’, and we need not try to glean truth from any other source, when in Christ “are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge”, (Colossians 2:3).

He is THE Door, and He is THE Way, to come any other way makes us a part of the thief and robber crowd. This has nothing to do with ‘my way’, nor what I would teach, as if we alone knew the truth; it is the call of HIS SPIRIT to forsake all the ways of self, all the kingdoms of men, leaving the things of the world behind, stripped of all its lusts and self-centeredness, that we might follow Him into that more abundant life. It is a narrow way because we must “suffer the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, and be found in Him”, (Phil. 3:8-9); and yet once we are IN HIM, the horizons are unlimited.

Ray Prinzing

Sister Doris Prinzing
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