Walking a Straight Line

Walking straight requires balance.

To walk a straight line, your body must be aligned, and your balance and coordination must work together. When alignment is off, the body compensates, strain sets in, and eventually correction is needed. That’s why people seek an adjustment when their body is out of alignment.

The same is true spiritually.

In Matthew 7:13–14, Jesus tells us there are two gates. The wide gate is easy to walk through. It requires no balance, no discipline, and no coordination,but it leads to destruction. You can walk crooked, out of alignment, and still move forward, yet the outcome is damage that only worsens over time.

The narrow gate, however, is different. It is hard. It requires intention, discipline, and sacrifice. It requires dying to the ways of the world. That is why the gate is narrow, but life is found there.

Life is found on this path because you are no longer carrying the weight of the world’s systems: depression, anxiety, constant stress, and pressure to perform. Instead, you are walking in peace. You are strengthened by God’s power and equipped with endurance that produces joy.

Walking the narrow path and walking a straight line is one of the hardest things you will ever do. It may require changing your surroundings. You may lose friendships and circles you no longer belong in. It can feel lonely at times, but you are never alone.

God is always with you, guiding your steps, and He will place like-minded people in your life to help keep you aligned and on course.

God has given us a choice.

Two gates.

Two paths.

If you are willing to choose the narrow path, you will experience a life you’ve never known before: a life marked by peace, endurance, and true joy.

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As you fast today, ask yourself:

How will you endure?

How will you block temptation?

And how will you stay aligned as you commit to walking the narrow path?