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January 3, 2012

Today’s special message from Jesus Christ is:

John 14:1-6 New International Version (NIV)

John 14Jesus Comforts His Disciples

1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. 2 My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. 4 You know the way to the place where I am going.” 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.

 

Optional reading page 17 from the book The Greatest Words Ever Spoken by Steven K. Scott.


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John 14: 1- 6

The setting for John 14 is one of turmoil and uncertainty.  Jesus has just told his discples two rather remarkable things that were sure to make them upset – He would soon be going to a place where they could not come and that Peter was about to disown Him 3 times!  Never one to leave His disciples hanging, His follow up comments are some of the most comforting words in the New Testament:

-  Do not let your hearts be troubled

- Trust in me

-I am going to prepare a place for you with plenty of room for all

- I will come back and take you with me

Even with such encouragement, Thomas was still unsettled, prompting a final piece of advice for him and all Christians:

I am the way and the truth and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through me.  

There are lots of things in this life that we do not know, cannot fathom or even remotely understand.  We may feel discouraged, alone and unsure about the future.  Yet, if we put our complete trust in Jesus, we will find a direct path to God the Father.  Such assurance is found no where else or in no one else.   Jesus and Jesus only, is the way to the Father.  There were many things that Thomas did not know … there are many things we don’t know.  But Jesus, revealed to human kind in flesh and blood, as well as the written word, is a savior we can know with complete certainty and it makes all the difference in this world and the next.

GRS