The Straight and Narrow

The Straight and Narrow

Walking the straight and narrow is often understood to mean that we must live a morally faultless life if we hope to get to heaven.

Living a morally faultless life is very problematic.

Just when you think you have it nailed, you look more deeply and discover you were wrong.

In fact, it's impossible.

Seeking moral perfection isn't Christianity; it's moralism.

The religions of the world are fraught with it. It's what the world is chasing. It looks right to those who are trying to find life by eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

That's what Jesus was telling people in Matthew 7:13-14 where this whole narrow gate and straight road concept is found.

The leap the religious people couldn't make was this:

Jesus is the narrow gate.
He's the only way to God.
No one comes to the Father,
no one is reconciled to God,
no one goes to heaven,
except through Jesus.

Faith is the narrow road.
We walk by faith, not by sight.
We're saved by grace through faith.

Your moral conduct isn't the narrow gate or the straight road.

It's Jesus.
It's faith in Jesus
It's nothing but Jesus