Will You Enter the Narrow Gate?

I dreamt I was walking up a mountain. I was walking a very thin ridge that wound up around to the top of the mountain, where I had to place one foot smack in front of the other so I wouldn't fall off. I did this until I reached a flat surface of the mountain. I saw three pens of sheep, connected to each other, on my left. The first pen of sheep were dirty and dusty. Their wool was almost yellow and they ate from sandy ground that had weeds in it and barely any kind of grass to feed off of. The second pen of sheep were dirty too, dusty, but not too much, and they were eating from hard ground that had very little grass, as well. The third pen were dusty, as well, where the grass was a bit better but not enough to live off of.

So I continued to walk to a ramp that led up to the top of the mountain. I saw a shepherd up there and I asked, "Are those sheep down there yours?" He said yes. Then he said, "Let me show you something", and he walked through a very tiny narrow opening that had a left and right post, and asked me to follow him. I looked at the opening in comparison to the width of my body and said, "There's no way I can get in that". He said, "Try and see". I shook my head and said, "No, there's no way". He said, "Try it". I said, "Maybe if I can get around the posts". By the left post there was a gap, that led straight down off the mountain and the fall was wayyyyy down. And the right post had the same thing. A gap that fell wayyyy down. I had no choice but to go through the tiny, narrow opening.

Note from David: {Mat.7:13} Enter ye in by the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many are they that enter in thereby. {14} For narrow is the gate, and straitened (The Greek means "Hemmed in like a narrow gorge between rocks") the way, that leadeth unto life, and few are they that find it. ... {2Co.4:7} But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves; {8} [we are] pressed on every side, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto despair; {9} pursued, yet not forsaken; smitten down, yet not destroyed; {10} always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body. {11} For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh. ... {Jos.1:7} Only be strong and very courageous, to observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest have good success whithersoever thou goest. {8} This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate thereon day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. {9} Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of good courage; be not affrighted, neither be thou dismayed: for Jehovah thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

My body miraculously went through and I followed the shepherd to a point where we looked down on another flat surface of the mountain. There, there were sheep white as snow; their wool even sparkled. And they wore like little shoes or their hooves or whatever you call them were clean and shining, and they wore little bells and were eating freely in deep lush grass. They weren't penned in, but safeguarded by other mountains around them. I said to the man, "Are these yours too?" He nodded proudly. I said, "Wow, they are so beautiful next to the other ones I passed". He said I would be part of that (future tense). Well that scared me. I didn't want that responsibility. They were too clean, too pretty. I asked, "Me? Oh no. But those other sheep that need help, I could help them, at least". He shook his head and said, "No, here". I said, "No, I'm not worthy for that. But the other sheep I can help out". He said, "You made it through. Not many get in there". I said, "But the others... they're starving, I could help them out". He said again, "No, here". I still felt afraid of that responsibility, but I nodded in submission and went back down the mountain, the other way. But at the bottom on the other side, I saw two ministers I knew of. (They are basically well known in the public.) And I was surprised that they were in the middle of a junkyard. It was like the junk blocked their way to get up the mountain. I went through the junk to greet them, asking them what happened. They pointed to some place, but I never got to see what happened because I woke up.

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