What Road Are You Walking Down? (ESV)

What road are you walking down on your journey through life?

According to the Bible, there are only two paths that a person can take.

“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few” (Matthew 7:13-14).

God judged the earth and its wicked works over 3,000 years ago by flooding the entire earth. He saved Noah, and seven other people. “The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. So the Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals.... But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord” (Genesis 6:5,7-8).

God will judge the earth again and all of its wicked works by sending fire from heaven. 2 Peter 3:7 says, “But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.”

Noah found grace in the sight of God and you can too. Look at both of these men—one received grace & the other received nothing. “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted” (Luke 18:10-14).