Chapter 14 (placeholder: not composed)
All of us have to decide: whose side are we on? If we run away and try not to decide, we are by that act choosing, but not the way that leads to life.
Matthew 7:13,14: Can you be on the narrow road and the wide road at the same time? No, no more than you can travel any two roads at the same time. If two paths are going in the same direction close together, they are really one path. And if two paths diverge, you will find it increasingly difficult (not to mention uncomfortable) to keep your feet on both of them.
On the wide road there is plenty of room to wander, but on the narrow path you have to watch your step and pick your way carefully. You will stay with it only if you are quite sure that it leads where you want to go. It would be easy to convince yourself that the wide road is the right one, because so many people are travelling it and they seem to be enjoying themselves and are confident they will end up in a good place (if they are thinking at all where they are going). The only way we know the narrow, almost hidden path is right is that God has revealed its secret to us. We choose it because we trust Him, not because its destination is obvious at first glance.