SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 11/11/2016 11:28 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
Comfort Comes from Trusting Christ’s Proclamation
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: John 14:4-6
Message of the verses: “4 "And you know the way where I am going." 5 Thomas said
to Him, "Lord, we do not know where You are going, how do we know the
way?" 6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the
life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.”
We look
today at one of the most famous verse in all of the Word of God, speaking of
verse six that is.
Why is it
do you suppose that Jesus said that they know the way where He was going? Perhaps if we look at John 7:33 and also John
13:1, and 3 we will get the answer. “Therefore
Jesus said, "For a little while longer I am with you, then I go to Him who
sent Me.” “1 Now before the Feast of the
Passover, Jesus knowing that His hour had come that He would depart out of this
world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them
to the end.” “3 Jesus, knowing that the
Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come forth from God
and was going back to God.” All of
these verses speak of the fact that Jesus made it clear that He was going back
to His Father, so at least they should have realized that fact, but as seen
Thomas did not know where He was going.
Now I have to say that the disciples were under a lot of stress as we
have mentioned reasons why this was true in many of our previous SD’s, so that
would be a reason, probably a good reason why they were not thinking as clearly
as they should have. I can say from
experience of being under stress that my mind does not work as good as it
usually does, and I suppose that this is true of all of us.
We
mentioned the statement that Thomas makes but Peter also made a similar
statement in John 13:36 “Simon Peter said to Him, "Lord, where are You
going?" Jesus answered, "Where I go, you cannot follow Me now; but
you will follow later.’” One of the
things or reasons there was such a problem with these disciples is because they
were not thinking about what happened beyond the grave, for they had to
understand that Jesus was going to die because He had told them so many times,
yet if He was going to die who was He going to go back to the Father, this was all new to them and
since we live on the other side of the cross we have these questions answered
for us, but they did not.
Now Jesus
answers Thomas’ question with the sixth of the I AM statements in John’s gospel
when He says “I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father
but through me.” We have one more of
these I AM statements in chapter 15:1, and 5.
This is quite a statement for Jesus is stating that not one single
person to ever live can go to heaven, to be saved, to see God, unless they come
through Him. People do not like this
statement at all, for it is saying there is only one way to get to heaven, and
humanly speaking this is not liked at all.
People think that there are many ways to get to heaven, but they would
be wrong.
John
MacArthur writes “The purpose of this gospel is to make those things known, so
they are repeated throughout the book so as to lead people to faith and
salvation (20:31).” We have not
mentioned the key verse or verses in a while so it is time to quote them again
to keep all of us on focus as to why John wrote this book. “30 Therefore many other signs Jesus also
performed in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book;
31 but these have been written so that
you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing
you may have life in His name.”
We will
continue to look at this truth in our next SD.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: I am thankful for this great comfort that is
seen in these verses, thankful that Jesus Christ died on the cross for me to
provide the way that I can be with Him forever.
My Steps of Faith for
Today: Trust that the Lord will use
this SD to bring comfort and salvation to those who are in need of both.
Memory verse for the week:
(Romans 6:16) “16 Do you not know that when you present yourselves to
someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey,
either sin resulting to death, or obedience resulting in righteousness.”
Answer to yesterday’s Bible question: “That they be slain” (Matthew 2:16-18).
Today’s Bible question:
“Who said ‘I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter’?”
Answer in our next SD.
11/11/2016 12:12 PM
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