How can we walk with God? How can we experience His amazing grace in our daily life? Jesus related to the disciples in a small way to make a big point.
Towards the end of His earthly ministry, Jesus was sharing a Passover meal with His closest disciples. He shared many key truths about the kingdom of God. When it came time to ritually clean his hands, he illustrated through practical demonstration the way by which the disciples would share God’s love and serve one another. He served them in humility by washing their feet. If that didn’t startle them, He said something that startled them even more.
“I AM the Way — and the Truth and the Life; no one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6 JNT).
RELEVANCE
The LORD revealed that He not only is the true way or path to eternal life, but IS eternal life—and the true atonement fir sin, opening the way of eternal life. What did He really mean? The apostle, Paul, shed light on the meaning of this in revealing that if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will also be united with him in a resurrection like his (Romans 6:4).
It takes what Jesus illustrated: humility and faith. We can walk in such manner in His grace and strength. More specifically? As we suppress our carnal sinful tendencies (lust of the eye, lust of the flesh and pride of life) allowing them “to die” and put our faith in the LORD, trusting in the Holy Spirit to enable us to rule over those tendencies, we become united with the LORD in His resurrection, and live IN HIM—the power of His resurrection—HIS WAY, HIS TRUTH and HIS LIFE.
Truly, no single day of atonement, verbal confession, collection of good works or blood sacrifice can satisfy God’s righteous requirements for the remission of sins. There is no way to reconcile our sins with a righteous, perfect God and make amends for transgressing His law; except coming before Almighty God with brokenness of heart and humility, receiving the sacrificial blood atonement of the LORD, Jesus the Messiah.
REFLECT AND RELATE
How do you daily resist the pulls of the world which would have you walk in ways contrary to God’s way, truth and life?
How do you keep God’s way, truth and life before you when making decisions?
When at a crossroads, what principles do you apply to best follow the LORD’s way?
REFERENCES
John 14:1-28