The Choice is Yours - John 14

Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going.” 

Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”

John 14: 1, 4 

On so many days I feel just like Thomas.  

Lord, I don't know where you are...how can I know how to find you?

We live in a world constantly telling us which way we should go.
How we should look. 
What we should believe. 
How we should dress. 
Who we should be.
How is it ever possible to know which way to go?

Jesus has spent his entire ministry telling his followers where he was from and to where he would be returning. He told them how to live their lives and what the Father expected of each of them. So when Thomas asks so innocently, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way.” He is basically saying that he has missed everything Jesus said to his disciples through out his ministry. Thomas wasn’t so different from you and me.

We are often blinded and cannot see the path of truth that God is laying before us. We struggle with knowing exactly what to do and when to do it. Recently, I heard a woman say that she was waiting for a “sign” from God to tell her what she should do next. She had become paralyzed waiting for God. She was essentially saying, “Lord I don’t know where you are in my life so how can I know the way.” We would all love God to give us a step by step map for which move we should take in our lives, but that isn’t what being made in God’s image is all about. He doesn’t make our decisions for us - He has given us free will. He expects us to make choices; to make decisions on where we are going to go and how we are going to live. He has already given us His truth and His life – now it is our turn to make the decisions on how our path will lead us to Jesus and to Him. 

Jesus told us – just as he told his disciples 2,000+ years ago – where he was going; where he is in fact waiting for us at this moment. He went on to the Father’s house. We know that he is preparing a place for us – because he promised us he would. And we know that the only way to get there is through a relationship with him. Now, how you reflect that relationship – how you live out God’s grace in your life is up to you.

You can accept it and live fully in truth and love and life. Or you can turn away from Him and His truth, wondering where God went in your life.

The choice is yours.

  Scripture

John 14

Quote

“Christ is not valued at all, unless He is valued above all.” 

Augustine

 

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