"Enter Through The Narrow Gate."

If I am seeking everything 
that can delight my senses

(William Law, "A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life")

"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!" 
Matthew 7:13-14

If I am seeking everything 

that can delight my senses, 

and regale my appetites; 

spending my time and fortune 

in pleasures, in diversions, 

and worldly enjoyments--

then how can it be said that 

I am working out my salvation 

with fear and trembling?

If there is nothing in my life 

and conversation that shows me 

to be different from the heathen; 

if I use the world, and worldly 

enjoyments, as the generality 

of people now do, and in all 

ages have done--

then why should I think that 

I am among those few who 

are walking in the narrow way 

to Heaven?

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