John 14:5-7

Rest in Him!  Jesus is the only way to the Father. Not by works but by Gods’ grace we enter into His peace

Praise His holy name.

Today, be gentle with yourself. Give voice to your soul, without “should” or “if only” or “what if”.

Remember that “God's love doesn't seek value, it creates value.  It is not because we have value that we are loved, but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift, not an achievement.” William Sloane Coffin

Take a deep breath. Let it out and say, "thank you." Literally. Name the small gifts of the day.

“Gratefulness allows us to nurture a keener eye that no longer rushes past the small everyday moments that make up the larger part of our lives.” Guri Mehta

Don’t be afraid to let your heart out. Even if it hurts.

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John 14:5-7

5 Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?” 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. 7 “If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.” The New King James Version

The person and work of Jesus serves as believers’ pathway to God the Father. Since there were divergent Jewish traditions, it was difficult for the Jewish person of the first century to know which tradition was Yahweh’s will.

The life refers to Jesus as the source and power of believers’ resurrection to eternal life. Jesus denies there is any other method but belief in Him for receiving eternal life. 

In the first century, the Pharisees proposed that people could receive eternal life by obeying the law. The Sadducees didn’t believe in eternal life or the resurrection of the dead, so they would have seen this as a moot point. Most Jewish people followed the Pharisees’ beliefs, but they did not abide by all their rules. Doing so would have been virtually impossible, especially for anyone who wasn’t very wealthy, due to the requirements for labor, sacrifices, and giving. Jesus claims that these things are not the way to eternal life, which can be attained only through belief in Him. 

This claim does not mean people are free to sin—rather they are called to love one another as Jesus has loved them. 

Salvation does not come through the law, sacrifices, religious practices, or the overthrow of foreign oppressors—all of which were beliefs held by Jews in the first century. Instead, Jesus Himself is the channel through which people can have relationship with God the Father and spend eternity with Him. Jesus equates His presence with God’s presence. Faithlife Study Bible

Through His death and resurrection, Jesus is the way to the Father. He is also the truth and the life. As truth, He is the revelation of God. As life, He is the communication of God to us. 

Jesus came to reveal the Father. To know Jesus is to know the Father. The NKJV Study Bible

Let your heart be kept with full trust in God. However others are overwhelmed with the sorrows of this present time, be not you so. Christ’s disciples, more than others, should keep their minds quiet, when everything else is unquiet. Here is the remedy against this trouble of mind, “Believe.” By believing in Christ as the Mediator between God and man, we gain comfort. 

Christ is the sinner’s Way to the Father and to heaven, in his person as God manifest in the flesh, in his atoning sacrifice, and as our Advocate. He is the Truth, as fulfilling all the prophecies of a Saviour; believing which, sinners come by him the Way. He is the Life, by whose life-giving Spirit the dead in sin are quickened. Nor can any man draw nigh God as a Father, who is not quickened by Him as the Life, and taught by Him as the Truth, to come by Him as the Way. 

By Christ, as the Way, our prayers go to God, and his blessings come to us; this is the Way that leads to rest, the good old Way. He is the Resurrection and the Life. All that saw Christ by faith, saw the Father in Him. Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary

Exodus 3:14 And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ ”

Matthew 11:27 All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.

John 10:9 I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.

Hebrews 10:20 by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh,