"enter ye in by the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many are they that enter in thereby."
Let me break it down.
Here is a voice that is
for you undeniably...
Ghost Friend said:
enter ye in by the narrow gate:
... it seems to be a life and death decision giving voice advising you to take the narrow gate whatever that might be.
Ghost Friend said:
for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction
I was right! The wide gate, for which the path seems to be widely traveled (broad is the way), leads to destruction!
Destruction sounds nasty. How do I avoid destruction? Err... narrow gate stupid! What the flip is a narrow gate? What the hell is this voice on about?
Now I am panicking. How the hell do I avoid destruction? Well I am not convinced that I am not
destroyed so I must be on the wide path thing. Dang! Help! What am I to do?
Then I start to think "I need eternal life here"
Then I start to remember I am reading the bible.
Then I ask God
Then He says "My grace is sufficient for thee"
Then I rest.
Twas Grace that taught my heart to fear and was grace my heart relieved.
Then I have a whole
heap of questions of God. Then the Spirit of God takes me to high places where I see more clearly though still very dimly. I crave the fruits of the spirit. My life is being transformed.
The unspiritual man does not receive the gifts of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual man judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. "For who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct Him?" But we have the mind of Christ. {1 Cor 2:14-16 RSV}
http://www.pbc.org/dp/stedman/1corinthians/3577.html