Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." (John 14:6 NIV)
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In this verse, Jesus makes it very clear who He is. He establishes that knowing Him provides the ultimate meaning and fulfillment of life on earth and that He is also the only path to the Father in heaven.
We are tasked with simply knowing and trusting in Jesus daily and walking in faith because He is the way. When we abide in Him, we can rest in the comfort of faith that He will lead us exactly where we need to go as we walk with Him.
This life is not our ultimate goal and does not encompass the entirety of who we are. It is a mere drop in the ocean of eternity and serves as the starting block on the marathon that leads us to our goal of eternal life – being with God in heaven.
When Jesus refers to Himself as the way, the truth, and the life, He is giving us a better way to live our lives through Him. He is showing us that through following Him daily in faith, He will lead us to a better, richer, more meaningful life than we could ever find on our own.
“Where I found truth, there found I my God, who is the truth itself.” - Augustine