How does God assess our lives? Jesus answers this question in the last part of the Sermon on the Mount. God is not expecting us to rack up a list of great moral-spiritual achievements. It is not about how much money you give or how many people you minister to or how much good you do. What God wants from each one of us is simply to walk the path that he has for us. You have to be intentional about this because the path of worldly success is a broad way and most people find it hard to resist. This is ironic because, of all the options available to us, the path to worldly success is by far the hardest option. The criteria by which the world measures success is harsh. You must labour endlessly to keep up with its demands. All that God requires, on the other hand, is that you simply walk the path he has set before you and do what he has prepared for you to do. If you do this, you will attain something far better than worldly success: you will be fruitful. Your life will, in other words, have a lasting and significant effect within what God is doing in this world, and this is all that matters. The pathway of God may not be easy. As Jesus says, there will be ‘storms’. But when you are walking in God’s path and living for God’s agenda these storms will not topple you because the pathway of God is a sure thing.
Reflect on which pathway your life is on.
Read Matthew 7:13-29
