Just Do It-Walking the Narrow Road

The broad road says it's okay to carry your bitterness. It says you don't have to confront that person, or if you're going to, it says that you can get revenge in that confrontation. It says you it's okay to just numb yourself. You don't have to feel those feelings. It's okay to live life distracted. You don't have to to to focus in. Don't do anything hard. Just look for happiness. Look for comfort. Look for the easy life. And what happens is we pretend that everything is okay while our hearts drift slowly away from God. [00:48:51] (38 seconds)  #ResistTheBroadRoad

If we're honest, most of us, like like myself, naturally drift towards the easy road. We naturally move in this direction over here. We're naturally, attracted by by the the comfort. We don't we're not like Owen, where we're just just born running and and, you know, you have to rein him in most of the time. We're we're naturally drift towards comfort. And and the fact is the the broad road doesn't ask very much of us. In fact, it just asks us to maintain. Just keep going. Don't rock the boat. Just it's it's more like a Jesus calls it a road, but it's more like a lazy river. Right? You just get in, you sit down, you lay back, and it just carries you along. [00:47:57] (43 seconds)  #DriftToComfort

This is how it this is how you know. Some people can confuse then the gifts of the spirit with the fruit of the spirit. And we see somebody walking and operating in the gifts of the spirit, and we assume that that must be the type of person that God is blessing. That must be the type of person that God wants to honor. But if you look in the old testament, there was lots of people who were living sinful lives that ended up prophesying. That wasn't God putting his stamp of approval on somebody. Instead, that was God using them for a specific time and a specific purpose. And, and and so we see this all throughout the scriptures. [01:03:08] (39 seconds)  #FruitNotJustGifts

The narrow road is difficult now, he says, but it leads to life. It's forgiveness when revenge feels justified. When I know that everything inside of me says, deserve this and it's okay for me to hold on to these feelings. The narrow road says, I'm gonna let it go anyway because of what Jesus has done for me. It's it's getting up and praying, reading your bible when you'd rather be sleeping. It's it's living a life of purity in a world of compromise when everything around you is saying that it's okay just to drift along. You're choosing to live a life of integrity and a life of character. It's it's wanting to be or it's choosing to be generous when you wanna be selfish. When everything says, I need to keep and save and hoard because I don't know what tomorrow is gonna hold. It's it's trusting God in those circumstances and then watching as God blesses you because of it. [00:54:14] (54 seconds)  #LiveTheNarrowRoad