Hello everyone, my name is Elise Brooklyn and this is Scattering Flowers, a podcast where we scatter flowers of faith.
I’m so happy to be with you reading the daily Gospels together.
Let’s get started.
Today is Wednesday, October 30th and we will be reading Luke 13, 22-30.
Follow along in your Bible if you have one.
Now let’s read Luke 13, 22-30.
He went on his way through towns and villages, teaching and journeying towards Jerusalem.
And someone said to him, Lord, will those who are saved be few?
And he said to them, Strive to enter by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.
Once the householder has risen up and shut the door, you will begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, open to us.
He will answer you, I do not know where you come from.
Then you will begin to say, we ate and drank in your presence and you taught in our streets.
But he will say, I tell you, I do not know where you come from.
Depart from me all your works of iniquity.
There you will weep and gnash your teeth.
When you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God and yourselves thrust out, and men will come from east and west and from north and south and sit at table in the kingdom of God.
And behold, some are last who will be first and some are first will be last.
After reading today’s reading, I thought about the Disney movie Pocahontas.
There is this scene where she is in a canoe singing a song called Just Around the River Bend.
It’s about trying to understand what the future holds.
I think if the Pocahontas story was told from a Christian view, she would automatically know the most important thing for her future was to believe in Jesus and trust in him.
The door Jesus is talking about is the door to heaven.
Everyone wants to get into heaven, but there is only one door and Jesus says the door is very narrow.
Let’s pray.
In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, dear God, thank you that you loved us so much that you sent Jesus, your only son, to be the door through which we can enter into heaven.
In Jesus' name, Amen.
In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, Amen.
Thank you so much for listening.
I’ll be back tomorrow scattering more flowers.
See ya!