The Broad Road's Lullaby

"And over time, you begin to treat pardon like a payment that clears the account while you keep spending the same debt. 

But Proverbs 28:13 says, He that coverth his sins shall not prosper. But who so confessth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.

We mercy is promised not to confession alone, but to confession with forsaking. 

*This is why many churchgoers will not enter. 

They want Christ as insurance, not as Lord. 

They want heaven as reward, not as God. 

They want forgiveness to soothe guilt, not holiness to destroy sin. They want spiritual benefits without spiritual death. 

But the narrow gate is Christ. 

And Christ does not negotiate His throne. 

Luke 9:23 says, If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow Me.

That is narrow. Few there be that find it. If that sentence does not

disturb you, you may already be sleeping under the broad road's lullaby because the human heart naturally assumes the best about itself.
Luke 13 gives a picture that should haunt every churchgoer. Luke 13:2 says, When once the master of the house is risen up and hath shut to the door, notice that the door does not remain open forever. There is a point where God's patience reaches its appointed limit. 

The door shuts, 

not because sinners suddenly become less welcome, 

but because time ends, life ends." 

Jonathon Edwards