The Narrow Gate

It seems to me that for even the most well intentioned people, sometimes, somewhere along the way we can get lost.

It's easy to do because as with most sins it occur over time rather than immediately, and it's full effects aren't realized until well after we're deep in them. So too our focus and passion can slowly and easily shift.

If we are honest with ourselves however, I think we would all have to admit, at times, it becomes easy to confuse the righteousness that comes from the effort of being on God's side with the self righteousness that comes with believing that God is on ours.

We become very certain, and self assured in our views that our direction then becomes turned 180 degrees as we become preoccupied from making sure  that we're actually right to making sure that others know that we're are irrefutably right.

That's when things get really ugly, as our true selves, as we are apart from the grace of God is revealed. Usually to others first and then to us.

We must, when confronted with these things, either repent and apologize, or continue moving ever further away from God in our certain stances.

At that point we create God in our image, rather we who are created in his.