John Bunyan, Author of Pilgrim's Progress, Asked the Eternal Question: "Will Few Be Saved"? The Same Question the Lord Jesus Christ Answered! A Point to Ponder! Check It Out!

One reaching out to anther drowning to save hm. A picture of Christ reaching out to save all those who would come to Him.

A Devotional for Monday May 2, 2025

From the Pen of John Bunyan, Author of Pilgrim's Progress

He Asked the Eternal Question:

"Will Few be Saved?"

“And someone said to him, ‘Lord, with those who are saved be few?’”

Luke 13: 23.

The general scope of the text [to strive to enter in] is to be considered, and that is that great thing—salvation. For these words do immediately look at, point to, and give directions about salvation: “Are there few that be saved? Strive to enter in at the strait gate.”

The words, I say, are to direct us not only to talk of, or to wish for, but to understand how we shall and to seek that we may be effectually saved. Therefore [this is] of the greatest importance. To be saved! What is like being saved? To be saved from sin, from hell, from the wrath of God, from eternal damnation, what is like it? To be made an heir of God, of his grace, of his kingdom, and eternal glory, what is like it? And yet all this is included in this word saved and in the answer to that question, “Are there few that be saved?” Indeed, this word SAVED is but of little use in the world, . . . [except] to them that are heartily afraid of . . . [being damned].

O when men are sick of sin and afraid of . . . [being damned], what a text is that where this word saved is found! Indeed, what a word of worth, and goodness, and blessedness, is it to him that lies [and] continues upon the wrath of a guilty conscience? “But the whole need not a physician.” He, therefore, and him only, knows what saved means—that knows what hell, and death, and damnation means.