"I am the Way, the Truth and the Life" John 14:6
Such a good verse. But I feel like so much of it has been lost. We treat Jesus as merely a way, a means to truth, a portion of the best life. Jesus becomes an option, a means to an end an avenue for us to get what we want or need.
It has never been, nor ever supposed to have been that way!
Jesus is our all!!
Our christian walk is to discover Jesus, to follow Him and to be like Him. Not to go through Him to find other things, but to know Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith.
He is the Way. Sometimes we think of Jesus as our means of salvation, how we get to know God, how we are able to access grace. But no, he IS the Way. In Jesus IS the Way. Knowing Him is all we need.
He is the Truth. We can tend to think Jesus is a wise man and his advice can help us to know more about the world and God. But no, in the man Jesus is all the truth in the universe. "In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God and the word was God" Thats truth.
He is Life. He is not an addition, an option, an alternative, an add-on, a bonus, a part, am auxillary, an augmentation, an increase.
In Jesus is our entirety. Our life, hopes and faith are in Him.
This has challenged me to read the bible in a new way. I want to know Jesus because He is Jesus. I want to follow Him and obey Him and be like Him because that's what I was created to do and that's the only thing I can do.
Which makes some of the harder, crazier things Jesus says even harder and crazier. Because they're real and truth. But easier because they're real and truth???
What about Jesus do you need to know more of?
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