9/6/20
Josh (to see video, click
HERE)
“Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.” This has proven to be sound advice for me in
so many areas of life, and especially so when it comes to our understanding of
various passages of the Bible.
Take, for example, Jesus’ description of the narrow and wide
roads in Matthew 7: “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and
broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But
small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find
it.”
I’ve often referred to that passage when warning people not
to take heaven for granted, such as in a recent conversation in New York with a
young man named Josh. I warned him that the
majority who assume they are in a good place with God are really among the “many”
who enter the wide gate and travel the broad road leading to destruction. They aren’t really aware that they are on the
wrong path in living their life and relating to God, so they see no need to
make a change in direction.
I “hope for the best” for so many individuals I meet who seem
to be on this road to destruction, because I still have hope they won’t continue
in that direction. But I “prepare for
the worst” in the realization that if they travel this wide road to destruction,
they may just very well end up there.
As Christians, we don’t have to have a doom and gloom pessimistic
mentality about the future. And neither
do we need to live in an idealistic fantasyland. We can live somewhere in between, in the reality
of high hopes mixed with realistic preparation.
Thanks Josh, for allowing me to record our conversation. It can be seen on my YouTube channel at https://youtu.be/QFHvLj0ecyo
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