![]() ![]() Thank You that I am considered righteous because I am in You. ![]() Lord Jesus, I confess my rebellious thoughts of thinking my “goodness” is good enough to earn salvation when only You alone are good. This may sound narrow and absolute, but Jesus was very clear throughout the Gospels that He is the One and only path to reconciliation with God. We either receive the gift of righteousness or we perish. Unless we place our faith in the righteousness of God that is given to us through Christ, we fall short of His glory and are deemed bad, wicked, unworthy. There are only two paths for all of humanity, a dichotomy between good or bad, righteous or wicked, God’s way or the devils’ way. Many of us are familiar with John 14, where Jesus tells His disciples. Apparently they were not yet persuaded that their Master was shortly to die and, accordingly, when. 'I Am the Way, the Truth, and the Life' - What Jesus Really Meant. The words of Christ immediately preceding the text seem to have been obscure and puzzling to the Apostles. In pastor and author Mark Sayer’s book Disappearing Church: From Cultural Relevance to Gospel Resilience, he writes, “What we are experiencing is not the eradication of God from the Western mind, but rather the enthroning of the self as the greatest authority.” In our narcissistic state, we think that we should be able to determine what good is.Īs Christians, how are we among the good? The answer: “We are in Christ”, period. Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life. Yet, do we realize the arrogance of that belief? It is as though we should be able to say to the Creator of the cosmos, who has infinite knowledge and wisdom, that He should stoop so low as to listen to a lecture from us? It is almost like a teenager rambling about how the world works to their parent who has probably lived three times longer than they have. We assume that He should do what we deem as just, wise and good. We think that He should operate the way we would operate. In our rebellious state we want God to work according to our desires. In our day and age, we do not like that there is only one path to salvation. In other words, salvation through Christ alone is radically exclusive. Very truly I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life.” (John 5:22-24). ![]() Whoever does not honour the Son does not honour the Father, who sent Him. He explains, “The Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son, that all may honour the Son just as they honour the Father. What Jesus is saying is that He is the source of eternal life and the standard by which we are measured and the Judge of all the earth. No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6). Jesus tells us, “I am the way and the truth and the life. ‘No one is good – except God alone.’” -Mark 10:18 “‘Why do you call Me good?’ Jesus answered. ![]()
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