Perfected

Strive to enter through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able. Once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door, saying, ‘Lord, open up to us!’ then He will answer and say to you, ‘I do not know where you are from.’ Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets’; and He will say, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you are from; depart from Me, all you evildoers.’ –Luke 13:24-27

The promise is that those who truly know Christ will be invited to enter through that narrow door. That narrow door is upon the narrow path that Christ has asked us to tread upon. It is narrow as we are commanded, “Do not turn from it to the right or to the left.” (Joshua 1:7) Treading upon this narrow path is the best thing that we can do in this mortal life that we have been blessed to partake.

On that day, there indeed will be many who will claim that they have lived a “good” life. They believe the lie of all lies that all one needs to do is lead a “good” life and they will receive their reward. Nowhere does Jehovah God tell us that we just need to be “good” and that is enough to come into His presence. It is the desire of Jehovah God that each of us live our life for His glory. He truly wants us to come into His presence but in order to do so; we must perfect in order to stand before the Great I Am. As much as we may try, we can never achieve perfection.

We may use the word perfect to describe something in this life, but even that falls short. It is celebrated by fans of baseball when a pitcher throws a “perfect” game but even that fails to meet the mark of true perfection. Would not a true perfect game thrown by a pitcher be one in which he threw 81 pitches that were all strikes and none of the batters were able to make any contact with the pitched ball? I have also heard it described that a golfer shot the “perfect” round of golf. If that were indeed the case, would he have not shot an 18? We all have had those “perfect” moments in our life but they too vanish like a mist.

Jehovah God desires that each of us spend an eternity with Him but in order to do so, we must spend time in this life relationship with Him and His son. There exists between us and God, a great chasm that we are unable to bridge. He gave us His son, Jesus Christ, to be that perfection and to be that bridge that enables us to come into His presence. He is calling each of us to take that step through that narrow door that Christ has revealed the path that we are to tread that will lead of us to that door. Let this be the day in which you tread upon that path and stand firm without going to the right or to the left.