As we lean on the Holy Spirit to help us become the people we are designed to become, we need to be mindful of the easy and accessible paths of this earthly life.  In several instances in the Bible, we are told of the easy paths to destruction.  In fact, there are so many references to the ways in which we can go astray, that I often feel like I don't have a chance at keeping it together.  Jesus went as far as to say, "Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”

What we see is in the Bible is not doom and gloom but rather a reminder that we need the Holy Spirit to take help us "enter by the narrow gate."  We really do not stand a chance on our own.  Left to our human instincts, and our fleshly desires, we will certainly find ourselves heading for the wide gate ... the easy way.  Why is that way so easy?