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)
Jesus is the way because He is the Truth and the Life. He came to flesh out all Truth and we are to keep our eyes fixed upon Him – to walk as He walked – through His power and for His glory. Truth is neither dogma nor creed rather Truth is a person. Jesus was in the beginning with God – He was God and He is God. He came to earth fully God and fully man and walked as God intended man to walk at the very beginning before the fall. Not only is He the Truth, He is also the Way and the Life – through Him we take hold of the life that is truly life. He came to earth, lived a perfect life and was the perfect sacrifice for our sins. God made Him to be sin for us so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God. When God looks at a believer in Jesus, He sees the righteous life of Christ – a perfect life. Amazing. He is also the life, demonstrating for us and empowering us through the indwelling Holy Spirit to “grow up” into the Christian we have become. He was to be the firstborn among many brothers. We are not to stay as mere babes in Christ. God desires for us to be like Jesus – a lifetime pursuit of growing up in Him. This is called sanctification.
While fully God and fully man, Jesus did not consider His equality with God something to be grasped but made Himself flesh, taking the very nature of a servant. He came to this earth always unquestionably and inexhaustibly doing the will of His Father even to the point of humbling Himself to death on a cross – for me and for you. Those who would follow this Master must learn to deny self - taking up their own crosses and following hard after Him. Like Jesus we seek to do the will of the Father through the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit. The Apostle Paul longed to know the unlimited and immeasurable greatness of Christ’s power. Likewise, we as modern day saints are to have that same yearning. Through the indwelling Holy Spirit we have been given unlimited and inexhaustible supplies of power to do the will of the Father. May we grow up in Him conforming more and more to the image of Christ Jesus.
God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. 2 Corinthians 5:21 (NIV)
Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ. Ephesians 4:14-15 (NIV)