Trusting God When Fortitude Fails You

“Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and those who enter through it are many.” Matthew 7:13 TLV

Some days I seem to have a size problem. For me it can mean wanting a small waist but a bigger bum. One day big bouncy curls and the next day the thinnest, sleekest hair, that blows ever so gently on the way to my car with my giant coffee. Except-I can’t go outside because I paid so much for the blowout I can’t let it get too wind blown. I cannot let my blowout get “ blown” out!

Some days my size problem is the size of my sin. I can float through days of sinless (😉) bliss and then the gates of a hot humid day opens up. Maybe it’s lack of sleep. Maybe it’s bad eating habits. Maybe it’s nothing out of the ordinary; but that is the day I know I have sinned. That is the day others experience my sin. Now of course as any other Christ following individual, I don’t wake up ready to sin. But I am human and it is because of this humanity that God sent a Savior.

While we may be keeping tabs on our “big” sins our Heavenly Father is not. If….you have accepted His promise of redemption. Not just for the big sin days but for all the days. All the sins whether we acknowledge them or not. All days are covered by the blood of Christ.

The Bible tells us there is a narrow gate. This gate is not the broad gate of the world. God has offered this gate to everyone but not everyone will walk through this gate. But the one who accepts Jesus as their Savior will walk through this gate.

God is not measuring your salvation by the size of your sin. He gave us a promise of a Savior, long before you were born. Jesus took your sins to the cross. All your sins, big ones, small ones, the “I wouldn’t call that a sin-sin”, the sins of your past, present and future. Your sins are not too big to go through the narrow gate.

Choose the narrow gate, the reward is an eternity with God.