MORNING MEDITATION

“Search, Find And Enter Through The Narrow Gate!”

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“Search, Find And Enter Through The Narrow Gate!”(Mt.7:13-14).
Archimedes is said to have been so many things bundled in one man. He was a mathematician, engineer, physicist, astronomer and inventor. It is said that he was taking a bath when he discovered a method for determining the purity of gold. Upon his discovery he was so thrilled and excited that he got out of the bath and ran out to the streets to tell the king, shouting loudly, “Eureka! Eureka!” Eureka is Greek for “I have found it!”
It is difficult to contain one’s joy and excitement when one finds something that is endearing to him/her. A true find is that moment of realisation; that moment when it dawns on you what the reality or certainty of something truly is.
Such a finding may not come in a laboratory or in the reading room of a well equipped library. It is found in very unsual places because the things we are concerned about are always in our thoughts.
Jesus says “there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.” It is like a woman who losses one out of her ten silver coins. She searches with care “and when she finds it, she calls her friends and neighbours together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost coin’…”(Lk.15:8-10).
The rejoicing over a repented sinner is because the gate that leads to life with Christ is narrow “and only a few find it.”
The gate that opens to the broad highway of destruction is wide and many go through it. It’s pleasures and attractions are so alluring and often difficult to resist.
The narrow gate is the promptings from the Holy Spirit depriving us of this worldliness, yet leading us to salvation.
May the Holy Spirit guide us so that you and I should be among the only few who find it. And like Archimedes when we find it we too will not mind hopping out of our baths are running through the streets to tell the King of kings, shouting, “Eureka! Eureka!
Prayer of the week: Holy Spirit direct my path so that I can find and enter through the small gate and walk the narrow road that leads to life. Amen!
Welcome back to a new working day and week! Have a blessed day and week! Peace be with you!
Rev Babila Fochang.

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