The Narrow door Challenge!

WORD 2day: Wednesday, 30th week in Ordinary time

October 27, 2021: Romans 8: 26-30; Luke 13: 22-30

We have these days, as one of the social network crazes, the various challenges that go viral - certainly you remember ice bucket challenge, the momo challenge, the blue whale challenge, the bottle cap challenge and so on, of the recent past! What are these but a way to enter into a category of persons who are virally, virtually and on-screen accepted as heroes, just because they are able to do something difficult or strange that is proposed!

Jesus too is proposing something difficult and strange to us as his followers... the Narrow door Challenge. He says, 'strive to enter the narrow door'...not many do, because it is difficult and it is strange! 

It is strange because, when there is a large, spacious door wide open, why choose something narrow? While there are multitudes and multitudes who are going through the broad door and cheerfully doing so, why would someone choose something that is narrow and desolate! The large, broad, wide open door... everyone knows where it leads. But deliberately they choose, due to weakness or wickedness - do I wish to be in that number?

It is difficult to enter the narrow door, because obviously it is narrow! There are strict conditions and requirements, like they have for travelling in these days of COVID with all the restrictions. But that is the way to security. That is the gate to salvation! Very few choose it over the other, but they who are considered strange will be the only ones in the privilleged presence of God, they who are considered losers will be the ones that will win eternal life, they who are considered loners and last, shall be the true sons and daughters of God, true brothers and sisters of Jesus and truly inspired people of the Spirit.