“I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
There are trips that I’ve taken hundreds of times. I can drive them without much thought because I already know all the twists and turns in the road from here to there. I don’t need a map to get to work in the morning. Nor do I need an atlas to get to my parents house. I’ve been to some places so many times, that the way is familiar. But later this week, I am going on a long trip; one that I’ve never taken before (going to North Carolina). You better believe that I am not going to rely on my keen sense of direction. Instead, I will have the map pulled up the entire time. I despise feeling lost, especially when it is so easy for a map to guide me in.
When our destination is being with the Father, Jesus says that he is the way. He says that he is going there and then he’s coming back to get us. He will lead us to the Father when he comes back.
In the meantime, though, Jesus is the Word made flesh (John 1:14). That means that the Word of God is the way that we have a relationship with the Father now. It is our map showing us where we are and where to go. One of the products of sin is that we have a broken compass when it comes to way finding. The only way that we will be able to find the correct path is through Jesus/the Word of God.
No person can make it to the Father except through Christ and His Word.
Today, may you find the Way.