Narrow Minded

Why am I sooo narrow minded? The world wants to know. Why do I always refer to scripture? Why can’t I just go with the flow, follow the crowd, maintain the status quo? I’ll tell you why…but first, of course let’s refer to scripture.
Proverbs 14:12 (KJV)- “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.”
If this is true that there are ways that seem right but lead to death then it is wise to be cautious, it is wise not to go just any which way you please without first considering the cost. If you are thirsty and someone offers you a nice glass of refreshing water you would take it, but if they offered you a cup of poison I’m pretty sure that no matter how thirsty you are you would not accept the offer. Are you being narrow minded for not drinking the poison?
The same is true of many things…. If I want to live a holy, set apart life for God, I must reject any poison this world offers me. There may be times of thirst, but it is better to thirst than drink that poison that leads to death.
Matthew 7:13-14 (KJV)- “Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”
Yes the crowd carouses around the broad way, they take no thought for the consequences, and the way they walk seems right unto them, there are many on the same path. They know not that they are heading for certain destruction and if you warn them they laugh, they mock and say that surly all roads lead to the same place. Ignorance is bliss to them on the broad way, they do not desire to know the truth. They see the narrow way as restricting, limited, and dull.
John 14:6 (KJV)- Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
There is only one way….His name is Jesus Christ! All roads do not lead to the same place!!!!!
There I go again…. Being narrow minded you say. Yes, I am narrow minded, Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life and I am not departing from it. The narrow way leads to life, it doesn’t limit me, but gives me freedom from the power of sin and death, it isn’t restrictive but liberating, it isn’t dull but amazing and there is nothing the broad way can offer that compares to what I’ve found walking along the narrow way.
Yes I am narrow minded, but that’s because I understand that being narrow minded means leaving behind all my worldly, foolish ways of thinking and turning to the truth revealed through God’s word. I don’t mind being narrow minded if it pleases my Father in heaven, I know what the broad way offers, I tasted of it, I had my part in those things that dishonored God and brought condemnation upon myself, but now this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Jesus Christ. I say yes… I’m narrow minded!!!!