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Know The Way – Go His Way

Thomas said to Him, Lord, we do not know where You are going, and 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.” John 14: 5-6 (NKJV)

When Jesus told His disciples that heaven had many mansions, and that He himself was going ahead to prepare a place for them, Thomas asked the pertinent question: ‘Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?’  He must have been astonished when Jesus replied “I am The Way” and no one can come to the Father, except through me.

Today there are countless ways and options that people are being offered to get to God. This has left many confused and bewildered, not knowing which way to choose. Jesus was categorical to His claim that He was ‘The Only Way’. Throughout His life here on earth, Jesus established this fact by the many signs, wonders and miracles He performed, but most importantly through His death, burial, resurrection and ascension.

The first step then, is for one to believe that Jesus is, indeed, ‘The Only Way to God.’ The next step is to choose to follow in the way that He has set for us. In Matthew 7:13-14 Jesus said, "Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it." (NKJV)

There are two ways placed before each of us. One is the ‘Broad Way’ which is clearly more attractive, popular and easy to take, but sadly, the end of which is destruction. The ‘Narrow Way’, on the other hand, is not so appealing. It’s hard. It’s a way of no compromise—sometimes lonely too. But that’s the way Jesus went, and it sure leads to eternal life. 

Jesus was forthright in saying that only few would choose the ‘Narrow Way.’ Let's choose to be among those who walk the ‘Narrow Way’ by faith and obedience to the Lord Jesus, knowing that, though the road may be tough, the end will be glorious.

May we be able to say what Job said in Job 23:11, "For I have stayed on God's paths; I have followed his ways and not turned aside." (NLT)