I paid $3.29 cents for gas today. The price of gas is mysterious but I am told it is connected to the old law of supply and demand. If that is the case you can thank me for the price reduction. It is because of my GPS. Prior to the age of global navigation by satellites I always added thirty minutes to the time needed for a trip. This covered the time I would be lost wandering about trying to find my destination. During those thirty minutes I would be sure to use an extra two gallons of gas. But now I just get in my car and bingo I get where I am supposed to be. If I came to a fork in the road I always took the wrong way. It got so bad that after I would decide which way I should go I then would take the other way thinking that would work. Those were the times I had initially decided correctly.
Aren’t you glad that Jesus declares Himself to be the Way? John 14:6. Prior to Jesus, mankind wandered about in a corn field maze. There was a seemingly endless array of religions offering everything from hedonistic gratification to ascetic self-denial. If you can imagine it, it was on the menu. The tragedy is the menu is still there and people are still hungrily browsing.
Jesus doesn’t show us the way. He is the Way. His promises are plain and powerful. “I have come that they might have life.” “He (who believes) does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.” The Way is not convoluted. It is simple enough for a small child to grasp. Perhaps that is the problem for those who delight in cryptics.
Written by Roger Bothwell on July 2, 2012
Spring of Life Ministry, PO Box 124, St. Helena, CA 94574
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