Are any of you, I wonder, as fond as I am of taking long walks? You may like walking, but until you are older probably your walks will not be very long. Whether they are long or short, if we are not sure which way to turn to get home, is it not a comfort, when in answer to our question,
“Which way?” someone says, “That is the way?” We may think the person is mistaken, and go the way we think is the right one; but we soon find we are wrong, and that one way only is right.
During the summer we were spending our holidays in a new place, and one morning my sister and I came to a part we did not know very well. I said,
“I think we turn to the left here.” So we did, but soon found we were going quite the wrong way, and, I am sorry to say, were a little late in reaching our destination. Had we taken the turning that she said was the right way we would have been in time.
Now we are all on the way through life, and we all hope it will lead to heaven; but let us ask ourselves,
“Am I in the right way?”
“Jesus saith unto him, I am THE Way,” That is quite plain, isn’t it? Yes, there is no question there as to a number of different ways, or as to which you think is the right one. The verse, which is God’s Word, speaks only of one way—faith in Him Who shed His blood on Calvary’s cross to wash away the sins of everyone who believes on Him. That is not a way of our own choosing, but God’s way—the strait gate and narrow way “which leadeth unto life.”(Matt. 7:1414Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. (Matthew 7:14)).
God speaks of another way—a wide way with a broad gate; but it does not lead to heaven, and if you read the verse (Matt. 7:1313Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: (Matthew 7:13)), you will see how sad is the end of all who walk in it.
Ere it is too late, may each of you choose God’s way—the narrow way, the only way to heaven.
ML 06/05/1938