Dial Daily Bread

Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

The question haunts Christians everywhere: “Is it easy or is it hard to
be saved? Are we correctly representing the Lord Jesus if we tell
people that following Jesus is the difficult way to choose?” Many
people, especially youth, have somehow gained the impression that to be
a genuine, true Christian is the hardest thing anybody can do, and for
sure Jesus tells us we must “strive to enter through the narrow gate”
(Luke 13:22), and we must “compete” as “in athletics” (2 Tim. 2:5), and
according to the NIV in Matt. 7:14 Jesus said His way is “difficult ”
(the KJV says “narrow,” and that is the correct meaning of the Greek
word there; it is not “difficult”).

On the other hand, Jesus says in Matthew 11:28-30 that His “yoke is
easy,” and His “burden is light.”

Who are we to believe--those who represent Jesus as telling us His way
is “difficult,” or those who tell us He says His yoke is easy and His
burden light? The two positions are as far apart as the east is from
the west.

There is a mountain in the West that had a steep road going up. Model
T’s had trouble climbing it, they found it “difficult.” No one could
honestly deny that the road up Pike’s Peak was “difficult.”

But if someone installed a V-8 engine in the Ford, it could zip up the
mountain road with “ease.” Is the missing factor our lack of
understanding what Paul calls “the truth of the gospel” (Gal. 2:5, 14)?


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