The Narrow Gate and the Strait Path

Our Come, Follow Me lesson for this last week has included a lot of talk about the gate we need to enter and the path we need to follow in order to gain salvation, and one thing that struck me is how narrow it seems to be. There are hoops that everyone needs to jump through. No matter who they are, mo matter where or when they were born, every person needs to be baptized by proper Priesthood authority. Not everyone has that chance in life, which is a large part of the reason why we have temples, but it still strikes me how specific the path is, especially considering how different different people and cultures can be. I would prefer to believe that there are many paths to salvation, just as there are many paths to any physical location, but that's not how that works. We all need to be baptized, and we all need to follow the same gospel from there. As restrictive as it is, that is the way it is. There's really only one way to get to heaven. We're just lucky God told us what that way is. Now it's up to each and every one of us to follow it.