Most people hear Jesus say, “narrow is the way which leads to life” and imagine a tiny, exclusive path into heaven.
But that’s not what Jesus was talking about.

He wasn’t speaking of eternity.
He was speaking of life now.

Jesus said:

“Because narrow is the gate, and difficult (pressed, confined) is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.”
(Matthew 7:14)

Notice the word life — not “eternal life.”
He was describing how few people live in the way that actually brings wholeness, peace, and strength in this world.

The “broad way” isn’t hell.
It’s any path wide enough to fit our striving, our fears, our need to control outcomes — and it always leads to some form of destruction: emotional, relational, or spiritual.

The “narrow way” is simply this: trusting Jesus instead of trusting self.

That path feels narrow only because there’s no room to carry our anxieties or our self-effort through the gate.

And yet, inside that narrow gate is the wide open space of life.

What looks narrow to the ego is always spacious to the soul.