Jesus Is The Way

 

Jesus is the Way

 

In John 14:6 Jesus says that He is the Way & the Truth & the Life. Jesus is the Way. Many people ask God for a detailed road map of what He wants them to do before they set out on the journey. But that is not the way God led people in Scripture.

 

Jesus as the Way led people day by day & that is how He leads us today. We are called into a relationship with Jesus in which He is Lord & where we are willing to do & be anything He desires. We know that what Jesus as Lord desires for us is for His glory & our good.

 

Jesus is the Way for everything that God desires for us & for everything we need. But I want to share four things that Jesus is the Way for.

 

Jesus is the Way for us to know God.

 

In Matthew 11:27 Jesus says, “All things have been handed over to Me by the Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.”

 

In John 14:7 Jesus says to Thomas when Thomas tells Jesus that they do not know the way, “If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also. From now on you do know Him and have seen Him.”

 

When we come to know Jesus, we know the Father because Jesus is the Way to know God.

 

Raise the Roof & Remove the Walls is about trusting that Jesus is the Way to know God.

 

Jesus is the Way to grow in our faith in God.

 

Colossians 2:6-7 says, “Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.”

 

We grow physically by eating right & exercising our bodies & our minds. We grow in our faith by following Jesus out of our comfort zones. We allow Jesus to take us into situations where we must depend on Him. Like Peter preaching to the crowd in Jerusalem or Paul standing before the crowd at Ephesus or Philip going to Samaria to share the gospel.

 

Raise the Roof & Remove the Walls is about depending on Jesus as the Way to grow our faith in God.

 

Jesus is the Way to experience peace.

 

In Isaiah 9:6 Isaiah prophecies that the Messiah would be called the Prince of Peace. In Luke 2:14 when the angels announce Jesus’ birth they say that there will be peace through Him. And twice in John 20 Jesus gives peace to His disciples.

 

We have peace through Jesus because Jesus made atonement through His death for sin. Now we are in right relationship with God & we have peace.

 

Raise the Roof & Remove the Walls is about having peace with through Jesus as the Way.

 

Jesus as the Way gives purpose for living.

 

Ephesians 2:10 says, “We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.”

 

God created us for good works & we find those good works & thus our purpose in Jesus. It is in Jesus that we find our eternal purpose. If we live life without Jesus, we have only a temporary self-centered purpose, but with Him we have an eternal God-centered purpose.

 

Raise the Roof & Remove the Walls is about finding our eternal purpose through Jesus as the Way.

 

Jesus is the Way, but each of us must decide to make Jesus our Way.

 

Raise the Roof & Remove the Walls,

Joe