Living the Journey

Here is the sixth of twelve verses to be memorized by April 23rd as part of The Challenge II!

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“I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life:
no man comes to the Father
but by Me” – John 14:6

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How does a person know when they’ve done something wrong? Did someone tell them that it was wrong? Is it because their mom told them so when they were young? And what even makes it wrong? How does any person know the difference between good and bad?

We know because of something commonly referred to as a conscience. Every person, believer or not, will probably tell you that they have a conscience. They may not like it, but it’s there in every spirit of every person. When God created man in the beginning of earthly time, He inscribed His Law on the heart of every human being. He gave us a built-in device to be able to determine what is sin. (See Romans 2:15.)

When we commit sin there is often a small, yet overpowering voice that screams in our spirit, “No!” Afterwards, there is that awful gut feeling you get when you know that you have no power in you to redeem yourself from what you’ve done. Often we unsuccessfully try to defy it, or rid it of our minds. So, what do you do? How can you possibly make right the countless sins you’ve committed throughout your whole life?

Because we have no power in ourselves to make restitution with God, we must receive His forgiveness. Rooted out of His unconditional love for us, He sent His only Son to the world in the form of man to be crucified, rejected, mocked, and scorned for every wrong thing that we have ever done. He was explicitly perfect. Yet He suffered in our place as payment for the wrong things we’ve done, no matter how great or small.

By dying on the cross, Jesus was interceding with the Father for us. If He had not done this, we would be paying the price forever in hell. But He made a way for us to come to the Father. He gave up His life and breath, so that we could spend life in Heaven for all of eternity! Three days later, he rose and conquered the grave—He is Life!

When you share this verse, you can focus on man’s inability to save himself and his need for a Savior. Jesus made the Way to the Father, to bring us to the Truth, so that we may have Life with Him forever!

~ Mandy

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