Help Us to Get to Know You

“Have I been with you for so long a time and you still do not know Me?" John 14:9

Does Jesus get frustrated? He certainly seems so in this instance. He told His disciples, "If you really knew Me, you would know My Father also. From this point on you KNOW Him; you have SEEN Him." And Phillip asks right after, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us!"

Could Jesus be any clearer? If we know Him, we would know the Father! And we CAN know Jesus through His Word. There is soooo much of Jesus in the Bible, EVEN in the Old Testament. That's why, on the road to Emmaus, in Luke 24:27, Jesus took the time to explain the passages in Scripture, “beginning with Moses and all the prophets", all the things concerning Himself! If we take the time to discover Jesus in the Scriptures, we too will say like the disciples: “Were not our hearts burning within us?" (Luke 24:32)

Lord, help us to know You through Your Word! Guide us though the Scriptures, and give us eyes to see You!

The Way, The Truth and The Life

 “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” John 14:6

Many people have rejected Christianity because of its exclusivity. But truth by its very nature IS exclusive. You can’t have many truths. Pilate asked Jesus in John 18:38, “What is truth?” but he did not wait for the answer. Many of us do the same. We prefer to make our own truth because we do not like to change how we think and how we live. Jesus said He is THE way. He did not say He is one of many different ways. 

Jesus said, “I came to bring truth to the world.” If what He says is true, then all other so-called “truths” are fake news. As Jeff Cavins says, we live in an age of unparalleled radical individualism. There are many articles about “Defining your truth”, and “Living your truth”. One article on Huffington Post by Rebecca Mckown actually ended with, “Now you are ready. Your truth has been un-earthed. Now go and live your truth. I will be right beside you.”

No one on earth can be right beside us all the time except Jesus. No one died so that we can live victoriously. In almost all other world religions, we have to earn nirvana through good deeds. The good has to outweigh the bad. The way of Christ is counterculture. Christ became sin for us so we can be righteous, holy and pure and the Father can accept us into His Kingdom. We have access to our Father because Jesus reconciled us. How glorious is this way of God that we may have an intimate, loving relationship with the Son, the Father and the Spirit. It is wholly incomprehensible that God would want that with us. Thank You Lord that You made a way where there is no way! You opened up heaven’s doors, because You are THE way, THE truth and THE life!