Wednesday of week 30 in Ordinary Time

What is the “narrow gate”? It can be a metaphor for many things, all challenging. Perhaps a reminder that we can never be complacent in our faith. We may have made a commitment to follow Jesus but that means we are on “the way”; we can never say “I have arrived; I’m done.
Or, it may refer to the responsibility we each have for the life we have been given. “Going along with the masses” will not enable me pass through the “narrow gate”.
Perhaps Jesus was simply tired of people following him wanting answers and wanting to be told what to do…perhaps he wanted to shake them up and invite them to reconsider the mystery of God and God’s ways and leave them with puzzlement.
A good way to our start our day; pondering the mystery of God and holding many questions.