Mar 10 - 03 - John 14:6

Jesus answered,

"I am the way and

the truth and the life.

No one comes to the Father

except through me.”

John 14:6

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On our own, our trajectory is death. It's inevitable. "Remember you are dust."

 

Jesus offers an alternative -- Heaven! Therefore, he is LIFE. 

 

Because God is utterly holy -- and we are utterly not -- God himself had to bridge the canyon that separates us, the canyon caused by our sin. Jesus crossed that canyon with the cross. Therefore, Jesus is the WAY to get to God. 

 

Continuing with, "no one come to the Father except through me," Jesus paints again the picture that he is the door, the "gate" (John 10:7), the WAY. Indeed, he says -- John 11:24-25 -- "Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die." Jesus-the-WAY provides the path to eternal LIFE. 

 

The part of this that we often overlook is that Jesus is also TRUTH. 

 

That means that there's only one way that makes sense of the world. And all our problems stem from having big and little lies at the heart of our worldview. 

 

·         The world says that people are basically good. The TRUTH is that while being created in the image of God (thus, having some good qualities), we are ultimately sinful to our core ... and in need of a Savior!

 

·         The world says that there are many paths to God. Jesus says that the TRUTH is that there is only one WAY. 

 

·         The world says that truth is relative. "What's true for you is true for you. And what's true for me is true for me." "And the worst thing you can do is judge ... a thought, an opinion, or a person." Jesus says, indeed, "Love your neighbor and pray for your enemies"; nevertheless, we are to be discerning ... and bold! "There is a way that seems right to a man," said Solomon (Proverbs 14:12), "but in the end it leads to death." If we're not reminding a lost world of the TRUTH and LIFE that comes only through Jesus the WAY, then we're promoting a culture of death (by being nice and saying "what's true for you..."). 

 

In Christ's Love,

a guy who doesn't have time

to write a book today,

reflecting on how these 3 lies

(and a few other key lies)

continually destroy our world

(Beside, would you read

a book of mine today?)