The Narrow Path

 "Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it" (Matt. 7:13-14 NKJV). 

 I'm reminded of a poem by Robert Frost: 

"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both 
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair, 
And having perhaps the better claim, 
Because it was grassy and wanted wear; 
Though as for that the passing there 
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay 
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

The last few lines of the last stanza seem to sum up my Christian walk, or any Christian walk for that matter. I was faced with two roads: the broad, most traveled, road and the narrow, less traveled, road. The broad road is the most appealing to the eye, while the narrow road is vigorous; however, on the narrow road is the light of the world, Jesus Christ: full and total reconciliation to Him. A crown of glory awaits those who come off of the broad road and exchange it for the narrow way. Two paths have diverged in this life; and I have taken the one less traveled by, and it has made all the difference. Behold your King!