ANCHOR DEVOTIONS (SEPTEMBER 17, 2011)

The Way
John 14:5-14




"Jesus answered, 'I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.'"
(John 14:6)

I am not good at navigating or finding directions. And being a man, I am often too proud to ask people for help. But what a great feeling (often thanks to my GPS) when I do know the way I need to go. I can proceed with ease.

Jesus tells us He is the Way to the Father. He does not claim to be a way, but the way. That means that He alone can show us the way to the Father, and without Him we cannot get to God. In our politically correct world, we do not like the idea that only one person is right. We like to be accommodating. But we can't because Jesus tells us that the way to the Eternal One is only through Him.

No one else in all of history has lived a sinless life that can purchase atonement for our sins by His death. No one else ever raised Himself from the dead. And no one else was ever fully God and fully man at once. That's our Lord! While GPS can give alternative directions to our destination, Jesus is the one way we need. Let Jesus be your single destination in this life.

INSIGHT
Prophets and other religious people may point us the way to the Father, but Jesus takes us there. He is the Way!

READ THROUGH THE BIBLE IN A YEAR
Isaiah 3-5
Psalm 74
John 14-15
John 14:5-14
Jesus the Way to the Father
5 Thomas said to him, "Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?" 6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you really know me, you will know[a] my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him."
8 Philip said, "Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us."
9 Jesus answered: "Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. 11 Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves. 12 Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.