18/12/2011

There's only one bullseye

Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it. Matthew 7.14

A darts player wants to hit the bullseye. An investor wants to get a big return for his money. A writer wants to craft his text with the words that precisely describe his message.

Aim. Success. Accuracy. All good things — but incredibly difficult to achieve.

Getting something right is always hard. Getting it wrong is very easy.

In almost everything we do, there are thousands of ways to get things wrong, but only a few (sometimes only one) to get them right. (There’s only one bullseye on the dartboard.)

If you want life — happy, fulfilling, full life — you must enter through the narrow gate. Millions of ways to miss it and to mess it up. One way to find it.

The narrow gate is Jesus.

But you already knew that.