Christ Warns Us To “Strive to enter through the narrow door"! Are You and I Striving with All Our Might To Enter That Door?! A Radical Point to Ponder!

Jesus' Narrow Door or Straight Gate described in the Gospels!

A Devotional for May 30, 2025

From the Pen of John Bunyan

Author of Pilgrim's Progress

From my recently release devotional volume Daily Readings by John Bunyan

Strive!

“Strive to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able” Luke 13: 24.

These are the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and are, therefore, in especial manner to be heeded. Besides, the subject matter of the words is the most weighty, to wit, how we should attain salvation, and therefore also to be heeded.

The occasion of the words was a question which one that was at this time in the company of the disciples put to Jesus Christ. The question was this, “Lord, are there few that be saved?” (verse 23). A serious question, not such as tended to the subversion of the hearers, as too many now-a-days do. But such as in its own nature tended to the awakening of the company to good, and that called for such an answer that might profit the people also. This question also well pleased Jesus Christ, and he prepared and gave such an answer as was without the least retort or show of distaste. Such an answer I say, as carried in it the most full resolve to the question itself and help to the persons questioning. “And he said unto them, strive to enter in” [!] The words are an answer, and an instruction also. First. An answer, and that in the affirmative; the gate is strait—many that seek will not be able. Therefore, few shall be saved. Second. The answer is an instruction also; “strive to enter in” [!].  [Please take] . . . good counsel and instruction; pray God help me, and my reader, and all that love their own salvation, to take it.