The Way

Readings:
II Kings 2
John 14:1-6

Focus:
John 14:6:"Jesus replied, 'I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except by me.'"

Jesus tells his disciples that he is going ahead of them to heaven, and Thomas wants to know the way there. Jesus answers that he himself is the way; he is the way, the truth, and the life.

Jesus is completely explicit about this. He does not say that he is a way. He is not one of the ways. He is the way. And just to make that even clearer, he says, "No one comes to the Father except by me."

This Jesus who loves us enough to die for us is someone that we want other people to know, too, not because we want other people to be like us, not because we're looking for conformity, but for the other people's good. That's because Jesus is the way.