Have you ever been on a walk in the forest and gotten lost? With so many trees around, blocking your view of the rest of the world, it’s very easy to lose your way. So, it’s important to have a good, clear pathway. Sometimes little signs or a streak of paint marked on some of the trees are there to help you stay on the path and not get lost.

The Christian life has pathways, too. If we choose to follow in the footsteps of Jesus, we find ourselves in the path that leads to eternal life in Heaven. But if, without thinking, we just follow along the easiest pathway, we will end up in the ways of death without any real hope for eternity.

There is only one way into the kingdom of Heaven—and everyone who will enter the pearly gates must follow Jesus there through the power and grace our Creator has given in His holy Word, the Bible.

Naturally, all of us have the same problem. “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way” (Isaiah 53:6). We tend to pick the easy path and that often leads to do wrong things. “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death” (Proverbs 14:12). This is not the Lord’s way. His way is perfect, right, and true. So, the Lord says, “Let the wicked forsake his way” (Isaiah 55:7), “for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat” (Matthew 7:13).

Many people go the wrong way, often without thinking. They are blinded by Satan and are carried away by worldly pleasure and strife. Is there any way to fix this problem?

Yes, the door of mercy is still open. Jesus says, “Enter ye in at the strait [narrow] gate: . . . because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it” (Matthew 7:13, 14).

This path is narrow, but God has made it so plain and simple that even the weakest can find it. “Seek, and ye shall find” (Luke 11:9). Pray, as did the psalmist, “Teach me thy way, O Lord, and lead me in a plain path” (Psalm 27:11). If we are willing to learn God’s way and to humble ourselves to walk with Him, we shall find it. “The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way” (Psalm 25:9).

“As for God, his way is perfect” (2 Samuel 22:31). No one needs to be lost.

So, let’s choose His way, and allow Him to lead us in the path of life!