Jesus in the Gospel of Saint Matthew tells us about the two ways, one that leads to life and the other that leads to death or destruction: "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it." Matthew 7:13-14
Two mentalities, two ways, two rewards. We have to choose between the spirit and the flesh. For Jesus the nature of the world is a fallen nature, we must remember the idea of original sin; in the natural man (worldly man) passions such as hatred, guilt, shame and the pleasures of the body such as gluttony and lust prevail. This is why redemption and God's grace are necessary. Justification gives rise to a different type of man; the spiritual man, in this type of man hope, charity and contemplative life (eternal life) prevails.
The path that leads to salvation is narrow because the world constantly puts us in difficulties, many fail due to lack of constancy, firmness (spiritual gift of fear of the Lord). We cannot receive eternal life (contemplative activity, John 17:3) without constancy, people with fickleness are people who live hopelessly.
Determination, progressive constancy, self-domain, devotion, the practice of truth (precision and accuracy) are distinctive characteristics of life in God's grace, Jesus reminds us insistently "small is the gate and narrow the road".
The reason of man always look to the good, but the passions are always present to twist the reason, sin has many followers, "for wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction", but they already have their retribution in this life and the one to come, those who live according to the flesh mutually brook each other until they lose continence, this not happens to those who live according to the spirit, selfishness destroys empathy, the ability to put oneself in the place of the other. We choose.
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