I am the Way, the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father except through me.
John 14:6
Have you ever wondered how Jesus came to these I AM revelations? I sure did. Commentaries are divided about when Jesus held an understanding of his Divinity. Some are adamant that he was born man, yet fully God, omniscient from birth. Others discuss, and my personal belief, is that Jesus discovered himself, just like we do……. though he were a son, learning obedience, choosing to suffer the limitations of humanity in order to be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, with the need to discover himself through the prophetic words and personal encounters with God.
We know In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. [John 1.1]; and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, [John 1:14]. No one has ever seen God; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared Him [John 1:18].
Jesus from some point lived with wisdom and revelation about His identity and purpose from his place of deep and intimate union with His Father.....
And he said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Fathers house? Luke 2:49
“And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favour with God and man”. Luke 2:52
....and knew His life was ordained to be the way for mankind to be reunited with God as a Heavenly Father. The highlighting factor of today’s verse, is that no man can come to Father without believing this specific revelation about Jesus Christ......
I AM the way, the truth and the life.
God’s goodness is seen in His provision as He gives Jesus as THE way back into relationship with HIm. Did you notice Jesus isn’t A way, A truth, A life? ‘A’ would indicate multiple paths to each of these things. He declares that He is THE ONLY WAY to any of these spheres. Mankind continues to seek many paths but God made only one. It is in yielded surrender to God’s Way, receiving His Truth that His Life begins working in an individual.
Jesus is The Truth. As the reality of God in the earth, we beheld truth in its purity. That’s why His life is the light of men. There is nothing obscure about God. There is no darkness in HIM, no variableness, no shadows. It is impossible for God to lie and because God is pure, unadulterated truth His words are THE truth. He came that we might know HIS truth and by believing THE truth be made free.
There are many truths in the world today but, again, Jesus is THE truth that every other word and reality must be measured from. All things are held by the “word of his power”.
“The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day. For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the father who sent me has himself given me a commandment - what to say and what to speak. And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has told me.” John 12:48-50
And finally, as we saw last week, he is THE life, that every man longs for, seeks after and finds in Jesus Christ.
No man comes to the FATHER except through HIS way, HIS truth and HIS life...found in Jesus Christ.