Jesus in John 14:6 says this:
Jesus Christ told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
He tells this to Thomas at the last supper right before Jesus gets arrested. Everyone calls Thomas “doubting Thomas” but I connect with him so much. Here is a disciple that has walked with Jesus, seen all of the miracles Jesus did, and heard all of Jesus’s sermons and yet he doesn’t understand fully who Jesus is. Thomas in verse 5 says this:
“Lord, we don’t know where you’re going. How can we know the way?”
I feel this so deeply because I’m just like Thomas. I need you to explain exactly to me step by step what you mean when you tell me something. I want to fully understand why, where, and how about everything. What Jesus is telling Thomas is you can’t know the way to heaven without the way, and that way is Jesus. We are incapable of escaping this world without Jesus and understanding what he did for us and who he is. Hebrews 2 extensively describes exactly who Jesus is and what that means for us. Jesus was fully man and fully God. He was made lower than the angels for a short time and he embraced the life of humanity temporarily so that he could help those who were tempted. He came down to this earth and made our relationship with himself personal. He humbled himself as a human and perfectly lived the life that we are incapable of living. He chose to get his hands dirty and took all of the responsibility of creation because everything was created through himself for himself. You may be like me and wonder why would God allow us to be taken from him in the first place? Or if God is so good and great why did he allow us to be taken from him? The answer has been free will from the beginning of our creation. You can’t have true love without it. He didn’t create us to force us to love him. We were created with the free will to see how good he is and choose to love him. He created us in his own image and when we belong to him he sees us as his sons and daughters. Now that Jesus has died for us he no longer sees us in the sin that consumed us he sees us as righteous and cleansed. He sees us the way we were meant to be seen since the beginning. Perfect and without sin. This is who the Jesus we serve is. He is our Lord and Savior. He is to be viewed this way and we must remind ourselves daily of who he is because it is what saves us. He is the way, the truth, and the life. The only way. Jesus is the gift from God that keeps on giving. To receive Jesus is to let go of the sin that covers us and allow his righteousness to cover us through the blood that was spilled on the cross. Love y’all! Have a great day!
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