Jesus Is The Way, The Truth And The Life

April 12, 2019

Jesus Is The Way, The Truth And The Life

Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.

No one can come to the Father except through me.

John  14:6

Next week is Holy Week and my meditations will center on this most important week of the Christian Year. In preparation for next week, I want to comment on what I believe is the foundation Jesus laid for his teachings that are sometimes referred to as his Final Discourse. (John 14-17) In Jesus, the Glory of God has been revealed. In Jesus, we see the heart of God the Father. Jesus, as the revealed Glory of God, washed the feet of his disciples, loved his disciples, and was the Passover Lamb who took away the sins of the world. Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. Jesus shows us the way home to paradise, the way home to God our Father. Jesus and God the Father are one.

Therefore, because of all that Jesus is, he can make the most comforting promise in the Bible:

“Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me. There is more than enough room in my Father’s home. If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am” (John 14:1-3).

This one promise is the tipping point for my response to all the claims Jesus has made on my life. My fidelity to Jesus’ command to go and make disciples depends on my response to this promise. My willingness to entrust my life to God so that He can use everything in my life for His purpose of transforming me to become like Jesus depends on how deeply Jesus’ promise resonates within my soul.

My Takeaway: The question confronting me is whether Jesus’ promise is sufficient to earn my unconditional, unqualified obedience? If yes, then hallelujah, as I know I’ll rest in his assurance that he will always be with me. If no, then what else must he do to earn my loyalty?

Perhaps you will wrestle with this same question. Good because that’s the purpose of Lent.

Sē’lah

Alex

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com. The BLOG is also available on Amazon Kindle, by subscription.

Publications by Alex M. Knight:

·        Seeking the Life in Christ, Meditations on the New Testament and Psalms has been published and is now available at Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle.

·        The second edition of First Think – Then Pray is available on Amazon Kindle.

·        Meditations on The Story of My Life as told by Jesus Christ has been released as an e-book on Amazon Kindle.

Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the New Living Translation (NLT) Holy Bible, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.