March 16
JOHN 14
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. 2 In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. 4 And you know the way to where I am going.” 5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”
– John 14:1-7
JOHN 14 THE ONLY WAY
A poem by ILMA inspired by these verses
Believe in Jesus and you will be led to the truth
When you know the truth, you will bear fruit
Sin, that is natural to humans lead them to darkness
The only way to get out of that pit is through Jesus Christ.
These following verses are transitional in my life because when I reflected on the promise that Jesus has a room for me in His Father’s house, I felt so reassured. Growing up without much assurance of unconditional love, made me blind to the concept of true love. In this account, Jesus reassures his disciples of God’s promise of a place in his kingdom. Can you imagine how that would look like to have your own special room in that palace of God?
Doesn’t that make you feel special and loved? For traumatized people, that is a foreign thought.
Thomas was another disciple who struggled with unbelief. He asked the question “How can we know the way?” He has this notion that he needed to understand first before he believed and follow the way. Jesus answered him with “If you had known me, you would have known my Father also.” In John 20:24-29, this unbelief of Thomas was illustrated when he didn’t believe that Jesus ascended and visited the disciples after he died on the cross. He wanted to be assured that it was really Jesus who came to see them. Jesus had to let him touch his wound for him to believe.
REFLECTION
• What are the hindrances in believing that the only way to God is through Jesus?
