Two Gates

A wonderful evening, with a cup of cold coffee, I, sat down to read a magazine; when my nephew came, with some doubts in English grammar. He asked me, “Aunt, when we describe about, something, are their two sentences, called a broad sentence and narrow sentence?” I, explained to him that these, are two ways of describing, your topic “if a particular topic; which you would like, to talk in general, it will be broad sentence” and, if “you want to tell specifically of the topic in detail, it will be a narrow sentence”. As, these days I was enjoying, at my sister’s house, after a morning bath, and washing of my clothes, when I, went out to the backdoor balcony to dry my clothes; I saw a small narrow gate

Narrow gate

there. It, was so narrow that, only one lean person can come through it.  Yesterday, the doubt of my, nephew; about grammar as to the let him understand the difference of a broad sentence and narrow sentence; brought my attention to the verses in Matt 7:13-14. "Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it”.

Our life is like a road. Wherever, we need to go, for sure we need a road to go on. If, we want to post something or get a thing from post, we need to have an address, a way, a path to reach us that thing. It, is in our hands to make choices in life, most often people make decisions; which does not require struggle, but can be achieved easily. We should go a little deeper and get to know, where the choice makes us to land. We should keep in mind, that not only the gate but the way which is small and narrow; is the actual the way to heaven. As, Shakespeare also has put it, “the smooth path leads to danger”. If the gate you are leading to is broad and wide; there might be unpleasant actions due to immoral life, and desires of wealth. Whereas, if the gate is narrow, with difficulty and narrow opening then you will be; crushed, pressed, afflicted, compressed, and squeezed. There will be less wandering if the gate is narrow. The life well defined by the will of God which will have a good way of thinking, disciplined and perfect life. Now it’s in your hand to choose which gate; the wide gate which appears easy, or the challenging gate which is pressed to enter the Kingdom of God.

Famous Quotes:

“Go wherever the narrow way passes. If possible, go wherever there seems to be no way and create a way.” - Israelmore Ayivor,

If you know, someone who is in a crossroad thinking which way to choose, please do share with them, so that this article might give them a new awareness. I’d also love to hear from you. Please, do leave a comment.

Thanks

Ann