Grace Next Door

Let’s just be real, not a lot of people are going to heaven.

I know that’s not something that makes us feel good, but it’s the truth.

We all want to believe we’re going to the place that’s the best. Nobody wants to believe they’re going to hell.

We want our families to go to heaven. We want our friends to go. We want our neighbors to make it. Deep down, we want everybody to make it in. I’m convinced if you spent five seconds in hell, you would not want even your worst enemy to go there. 

And you know what? God doesn’t want you to go to hell either. In fact, He wants people to go to Heaven even more than we do.

The Bible says, “It’s the will of God that none should perish, but that all should come to everlasting life.”

That’s His heart. He doesn’t want anyone lost. His desire is for everyone to be saved.

But as much as we’d love to believe that everyone goes to heaven, that’s just not reality.

Jesus said it straight: “Narrow is the way that leads to life, and few there be that find it.” Matthew 7: 14. 

Few. Not many!

That’s a sobering thought.

I know that may not sit well with everyone. It’s not always easy to hear or accept, especially when it challenges what we’ve always believed. But if we’re going to follow God’s Word, we have to believe ALL of it, the whole truth, even when it’s hard to stomach sometimes.

This isn’t a spiritual buffet where we pick what we like and leave what we don’t.

It’s God’s Word, infallible, unchanging, and true from beginning to end.

Either we believe it or we don’t.

And if we call ourselves followers of Christ, then we’ve got to take His Word as it is, the parts that comfort us AND the parts that confront us.

Because at the end of the day, our opinions won’t matter much.

Mine won’t. Yours won’t.

The only thing that will matter is what the Word of God says.

Jesus said, “I didn’t come to condemn the world, but the words I have spoken will judge them in the last day.”

If it were easy, we’d all be going to heaven.

If it were easy, churches would be packed out; there wouldn’t be enough room to hold everyone.

If it were easy, everybody would be lining up to follow Jesus.

But it’s not easy.

The road that leads to life is narrow. It’s specific. It’s intentional.

And it’s not found in any other thing than through Jesus Christ alone!

Jesus said, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”

You can’t get over Him.

You can’t get under Him.

You can’t go around Him.

There’s no shortcut. No side gate. No other path.

There’s only one way.

But here’s the good news: that one way is still open.

The door’s not shut. Grace hasn’t run out. Jesus is still calling.

The road may be narrow, but it’s not closed.

There’s still time to find it. Still time to walk it. Still time to follow Him.

So if you’ve been drifting, or maybe just assuming heaven is automatic, let me tell you: it’s time to get on the narrow road.

It’s time to walk with Jesus for real.

Because there’s no better road, no safer road, and no other way to the Father.