Scripture often describes life as a choice between two ways. The teaching today by Jesus takes the form of the broad and narrow ways. His use of the broad and narrow paths is a straightforward, black-and-white view of our human conduct that focuses on the final outcome of our decisions. Our lives depict the relationship between our choices and the consequences they bring us. We often lie to ourselves by seeing this reasoning as too simplistic. That is usually because of the lens through which we view life, which only sees things in shades of grey. We either decide to follow God’s way or our own way, and there is a significant difference between the two. One thinks, for example, of the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve had to decide between the way of obedience and the way of disobedience, symbolized by the Tree of Life and the other by the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil that threatened death. Let us not forget that God did not send his Son into the world to condemn it but for the world to be saved through him. God gave us the freedom to wear the light of Christ or the shroud of the darkened world. The choice is and always will be ours to make.