“I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6).

I do not know about you, but I have come to rely upon my GPS for navigation and traffic. All I do is put in the address and “she” tells me how to get where I need to go. But then, I might also check Google navigation just to be sure, and often they disagree. And then, someone will recommend Waze which may suggest an alternate route to avoid a slowdown. So, do I take the one that says it will get me there quickest? Perhaps I should take the one that is the most conservative estimate. Or maybe it is the one that has proved most reliable over time. The problem is that not one of my devices is 100% accurate. So, you say that’s because conditions are changing all the time—traffic, road construction, weather, etc.

And even worse—have you ever fought to get somewhere and found when you got there that they had moved????  One time I was going to a play at TPAC. I had parked and was rushing down the street, cutting it close (and it was cold that night). When I arrived at the door, the sign said the entrance had changed to the other side, in essence, I still had two more blocks to go. UGH! BRRR! Conditions change all the time. What does not change is that I need to be at work at the start of my shift, or at my doctor’s office at the appointed time, or in my seat before the show starts. Those things do not change.

In life, we all have a final destination, and we are headed there now, if we have not already arrived. Our destination is the Kingdom of Heaven. The Kingdom of Heaven is right where it has always been and always will be, in other words, you can count on it to not move or be moved. Heaven is where God is, and Jesus is sitting at His right hand.

“Forever, O Lord, thy Word is settled in heaven. God’s Word, or Law, is eternal and unchanging – fixed and established forever in the heaven of heavens” (comp. Psalm 89:2; James 1:17).

Not only is Heaven unchanging, the way to get there is described in the Scriptures and has not changed since they were written more than two thousand years ago. In John 6, we have two amazing miracles: Jesus feeding the five thousand, and Jesus walking on water. The next day, the crowd came looking again for Jesus.

“Once the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum in search of Jesus. When they found him on the other side of the lake, they asked him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?” Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw the signs I performed but because you ate the loaves and had your fill. Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.” Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?” Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.” (John 6:24-29).

 Jesus is very clear, He is the only way to the Father in Heaven, and the only way we will stay on The Way to arrive in Heaven is to believe in The Way.

To continue with the logistical analogy, even though I happen to live on a dead-end road, I am fortunate in having more than one way to get to get to my road from wherever I am. Some of us pride ourselves on always having a Plan B, a backup plan if the first one falls through. Some of us have multiple options in play all the time, juggling and grabbing whichever seems the most profitable or expedient at any given time. And that is sometimes good; however, not when it comes to our path to the Kingdom of Heaven. In those cases, there is only one Way. To count on other things, to hope a Plan B will work, is to take our eye off our ultimate destination. Let us remember:

“Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).

In Christ,

Judy