Imagen this;
you go to a game, this game has been talked about for many years, the teams have been chosen and for many years you have spent a small fortune purchasing all the advertised paraphernalia, you have spent thousands of hours listening to and watching your team, you have even had arguments with friends and family over which team is the best.
But once you arrive to the stadium and pay the ridiculously high price to get in, you are confronted with a problem.
You are standing in front of two doors, surround both doors are posters of each team and you have to choose, the door will you go through to get in to the game, but all the posters only show the back of each player and they all are wearing the same white uniform, with no names nor numbers.
What do you do?
There is no way out of the room except to choose one of the two doors.
The crowd around has become angry and loud chaos has set in and they are demanding answers.
You look down at your ticket to see if there are any clues on and you read.
“This ticket only allows one entry”
“Once entering you must choose the door you desire
once you chose you cannot return to change your mind,
Each ticket grants only one entry.
So, choose wisely.
For one door will lead you to your seat and the other will lead you to the parking lot.
This ticket is nonrefundable.”
What do you do?
How do you know the door to choose?
If you chose the wrong door, how will you ever justify all the time, money and effort you have invested over the years, how will you justify all the time you have lost with family and friend, due to the game?
Just to get to this point in time and chose the wrong door and have to then consider it all a lose?
Then it is brought to your remembrance, that one individual who years ago told you;
“This game is a trap”
“Be wise as to how you will spend your life.”
“For there is a better team, a team that will not try to miss lead, will not deceive you in any way, will not make promises it cannot nor will not keep.
This team will not charge you to inter in, your ticket is waiting for you and is free.
All you have to do is chose to inter in."
Then in all the commotion you hear a still small voice saying come over here.
You turn and see a narrow hall way leading to a third door.
And the voice says come enter in, We have been waiting for you, come.
You take a step toward the small hall way but others who see you moving away from the two doors start yelling, telling you, you are a fool to walk away, you will lose everything if you walk away from the game.
But it is as the still small voice is reaching out to you quietly calmly saying enter in you will not lose anything, but gain much, enter in it is free.
Then you wake up and realize it was all a dream.
You get up it is Sunday morning and the day of the big game, so you get dressed and ready for friends and family to arrive to watch the big game on your new $3,000.00 big screen with surround sound.
And for a brief moment you thank of your dream, and how it probably would have been better to have spent the $3,000 to pay off that credit card, but you brush that thought off quickly because you need to run to the store to pick up mor snacks and drinks before everyone shows up.
Now your back and the whole gang has arrived the time has come you turn on your new screen the announcer is giving pre game amusements, the game is about to start and something goes wrong.
Something has happened to your connection and the receiver has scrambled everything the room fall quiet, there is someone now on the screen saying
“There is a better way”
It cost you nothing to enter in, your ticket is free, all you need to do is make the choice to except it. Christ stands at the door and knocks, will you answer His knock at the door of your heart, will you listen to that still small voice calling to you, come enter in to the narrow path that leads to the small gate.
And instantly you remember your dream.
And now you have to answer the question.
Who or what will you chose.
Your friends and family are scrambling around trying to figure out how to get to the game but you are hearing that still small voice aging, and it is telling you
“It is time to make your choice will you follow the world or will you come to Me, will you except my rest?”
“Will you enter in to My loving kindness, will you come to Me repent of your sins, will you except My forgiveness?
Or will you continue to follow after the world and its ways, will you continue to through your life away, striving to fit in?
will you continue to ignore my still small voice?
The choice is yours and yours alone to make.
Will you continue to follow the ways of this world, the broad road to the wide gate that leads to destruction, or will you choose to take the narrow road to the small gate that leads to life?
Aging this is your choice and no one can make it for you.
No amount of money or worldly goods can open the small gate for you, you can’t make it through the small gate with any of it there is only enough roof for you, so why not drop the baggage choose the narrow path, and enter in through the small gate to eternal life in Christ Jesus.
Still your choice.
Choose wisely, for once you make your choice it is made.