The Way, the Truth and the Life! Part II

"I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." John 14:6.

The focus of this meditation is on "Truth" as it is in Jesus, "the way, the truth, and the life."

After Jesus was arrested in Gethsemane, the following morning he was brought to Pilate, the Roman governor. After examining Jesus, Pilate told the Jewish leaders to take Jesus and judge him according to their own laws.

The Jews answered Pilate, "It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death."

"Then Pilate entered the Praetorium again, called Jesus, and said to Him. 'Are you the King of the Jews?'…

"Jesus answered, 'My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would fight, so that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but now My kingdom is not from here.'

"Pilate therefore said to Him, 'Are You a king then?'

"Jesus answered, 'You say rightly that I am a king. For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice." John 18:37.

"Pilate said to Him, 'What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, 'I find no fault in Him at all.'" John 18:31-38.

Pilate didn't wait for an answer to his own question, "What is truth? Jesus said it very plainly to Pilate, "I have come into the world that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice."

In their blindness, the Jewish leaders who brought Jesus to Pilate did not see the murderous hatred that defiled their own hearts. They did not see that in rejecting Christ, the real Passover lamb, the great feast they were about to celebrate would lose its significance for them. However, for those who put their faith and trust in God, they will be saved from the final destruction at the end of this world as the first born sons of faithful Israelites were saved from the destroying angle who struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt who were not protected by the blood of the Passover lamb (Exodus 12:21-29).

The truth is that the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross is the only antidote for sin. The blood of Jesus is the only remedy available to us to counteract the effects of the poison of sin in our lives as the blood on the door posts of Israelite dwellings spared the first born within.

God, the Father, sent Jesus to teach us the way of life, including everlasting life. You and I had no choice about being born into this life. However, we do have a choice about the future, and whether or not we want to accept what the Lord of the Universe has to offer those who put their faith and trust in the provisions He has made for them.

John states this choice succinctly and beautifully, "He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in Him, who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God" John 1:10-13. This experience of new birth is more fully explained in John 3:1-21.

Here are just a few more lessons of Truth that Jesus came to share with us:

"God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself" 2 Corinthians 5:19.

"He (Jesus) is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation" Colossians 1:15.

It is Jesus who reveals the Father to the human race. If you want to know what God is like, you may see Him in the life of Jesus. He is One with the Father. He has made Himself to be one with us, so that we may be made like Him. "For He (God) made Him (Jesus) who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him" 2 Corinthians 5:21.

"If you abide in My word, you are My disciples, and you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free" John 8:31, 32.