Jesus: The Way, The Truth and The Life!

Today's Reading: "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going." Thomas said to him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going, so how can we know the way?" Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him." (John 14:1-7)

Today, many Christians have come under attack for supposed intolerance, lack of "political correctness", yea, even hatred of people of other faiths, or those of no faith at all--because of our assertion that Jesus Christ is the only way to God. In the above passage, Jesus Christ Himself introduces us all to the total exclusion of any other way to God. (Personally, I think this passage should be read, I AM--the Way, the Truth, the Life.)

The word "way" is translated here as a course of life or mode of action. The LORD’S (Jehovah Yahweh—God the Father) "way" is the correct course to take—Jesus is the Way.

Jesus also assures His disciples that He is the Truth: “Show me your ways, O LORD, teach me your paths; guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.” (Psalm 25:4-5) “…but first I will tell you what is written in the Book of Truth.” (Daniel 10:21) “This is what the LORD says: "I will return to Zion and dwell in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth…” (Zechariah 8:3)

The word "truth" is translated in the above passages is a certainty, trustworthiness, establishment, faith, right, sure, true.

Jesus goes on to describe Himself as the Life. “In him was life, and that life was the light of men.” (John 1:4) “Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world." (John 6:32-33) “Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die.” (John 11:25-26) "Life" is translated both literally and figuratively and includes the element of time. Jesus assures his disciples that if they have beheld Jesus, they have in fact beheld the Father!

Do you feel that you know the Father because of Jesus Christ? Oh, I pray you do!

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.” (John 1:1-3) “For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him…” (Colossians 1:19) “For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form…” (Colossians 2:9)