The WAY..

Part 1 of 3

I have some post-it notes with this phrase on them: "The Way, the Truth, and the Life". I use them for grocery lists, phone numbers, to-do lists, etc. We see it on billboards, t-shirts, and bumper stickers too. We're literally innondated with the Words of God! But what do they really mean? Too often we get caught up in "Christian catch-phrases" and never stop to ponder the actual meat of God's Word. What does this Scripture mean to us?

Jesus said, "I am the way..." (Jn 14:6). He is the only Being able to span the gross distance between God and the sinner; He is the only One willing and able to take the Cain ("wanderer") out of us: "They are all gone out of the way..." (Rom 3:12). He is not a mere guide whose come to show us the path to God, rather, He is the Way itself: "All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him" (Matt 11:27).

Jesus is our access (Rom 5:2; Eph 2:18), our avenue, our only "WAY into the holiest" (Heb 9:8).. we're to only come unto God "by Him" (Heb 7:25). The rending of His precious flesh is our "new and living WAY" (Heb 10:19-22).

Knowing mankind, we would surely strive to make our own ladder, pray our way to God, or reform our way to real intimacy - but this is utterly impossible aside from King Jesus: "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death" (Prov 14:12). It is only a devil who would keep mankind working his way to God, weary from his self-imposed journey. But Jesus is the blood-stained mercy-seat personified - the only proper avenue by which the Father can come and commune with His creation. What mankind could never do, Jesus has done by his perfect condescension.. He is the Way, the way to the Father, the way to eternal blessedness! It's only by Him we're to "believe in God" (1 Pet 1:21). Aren't you grateful He's your friend?

To be continued...