John 14:1-7
The Way, the Truth, and the Life
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.”
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. 7 If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”
When One is the Way, the Truth, and the Abundant Life, He is One we should listen to...We should trust in God, and trust also in Him...Let us realize that as Thomas asked about the Way, and Knowing the Way -we should too...Knowing the Way is Knowing and Trusting and Believing and having Faith in Jesus...
Jesus teaches us to love God and to love neighbor, even if our neighbors are our enemies...He wants us to follow His Teachings even though they are quite difficult...Jesus said that He is Truth, and He did only what is right...When Jesus was born, hope was born...He teaches us forgiveness, and we are to forgive others countless times...Faith in Him means believing that He was resurrected after He was dead, and then taught His Disciples for another forty days, and over five hundred people saw Him after His death...He is the Smartest Uneducated Man to live, because all things were created through Him out of nothing...Money meant very little to nothing to Him, because He knew His Father would provide Him His daily needs...He teaches us that only God is Good...Sin has made the world a bad place to live and therefore we need Him as our Savior...God is LOVE and He is the One that taught us how to love...He wants us to be humble and not exalt ourselves...Children ran to Him and loved Him, they saw Him better than the older generation and that He is Good...They knew through their naïve and innocent ways that He inherently is Good...Children, therefore, loved Him without reason or logic...And as He traveled from village to village talking about God, He teaches and taught us that God's Mysteries are greater and more satisfying than any of man's solutions to life...
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic....He has been referred to as the prince of paradox...He had these things to say about life and about God...“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.”...“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”...“Right is right, even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong about it.”...“As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is a mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength at all.”...“To love means loving the unlovable...To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable...Faith means believing the unbelievable...Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”...“Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.”...“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”...“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”...“There are two ways to get enough...One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”...“If there were no God, there would be no atheists.”...“The word "good" has many meanings...For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.”...“It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.”...“Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?'...I am. Yours truly,”...“The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.”...“Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is...Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.”...“Humility is the mother of giants...One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.”...“For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.”...“Reason is itself a matter of faith...It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.”...“There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.”...“You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.”...“The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man. – Introduction to The Book of Job.”...