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Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them and give thanks to the LORD. This is the gate of the LORD; the righteous shall enter through it. I thank you that you have answered me and have become my salvation. Psalm 118:19-21
When Jesus spoke of finding salvation, He once used the metaphor of a gage: “How narrow is the gate and difficult the road that leads to life, and few find it” (Matthew 7:14). That gate is not a lifestyle or a series of decisions on our part, or even what we sometimes call the “Christian walk.” Jesus Himself is the Gate to the Father: “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6). You will not find a way around the Gate!
The Gate changes everything. We are not righteous and then enter—we become righteous when we enter into a new life in Christ. As the psalmist says of the Lord in today’s reading: “You have answered me and have become my salvation.”
The Lord Himself is our Salvation. The “difficult…road that leads to life” is humbling our hearts in repentance and asking the one and only Son of God, the one and only Way to the Father, to become our righteousness.
Prayer: Praise Jesus, our Gate and our Salvation, our Way and our Righteousness!
When Jesus spoke of finding salvation, He once used the metaphor of a gage: “How narrow is the gate and difficult the road that leads to life, and few find it” (Matthew 7:14). That gate is not a lifestyle or a series of decisions on our part, or even what we sometimes call the “Christian walk.” Jesus Himself is the Gate to the Father: “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6). You will not find a way around the Gate!
The Gate changes everything. We are not righteous and then enter—we become righteous when we enter into a new life in Christ. As the psalmist says of the Lord in today’s reading: “You have answered me and have become my salvation.”
The Lord Himself is our Salvation. The “difficult…road that leads to life” is humbling our hearts in repentance and asking the one and only Son of God, the one and only Way to the Father, to become our righteousness.
Prayer: Praise Jesus, our Gate and our Salvation, our Way and our Righteousness!
