Jesus said that he is the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father apart from him (John 14:6). There is no way to be saved apart from Christ, because there is no other way to be delivered from our sins except through his blood.
Jesus is the life. This means that he is the only source of true life in this world. All spiritual life comes from Jesus.
Jesus is the truth. This means that there is no truth apart from Christ. All true wisdom comes from Jesus. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom (Proverbs 9:10). In Christ Jesus are hid all treasures of wisdom and knowledge (Colossians 2:3).
Jesus is the way. He is a road. He is a path.
Throughout the New Testament, the Christian life is called the way (Acts 9:2; 18:25-26; 19:9; 19:23; 22:4).
The Christian life is like a way because it is all about Jesus who is the way.
A road is a place of either forward or backward movement. It is not a place of sitting or standing still. In the Christian life God wants us to move forward.
A road is a place between two points. A road has both an origin and a destination. In the Christian life, we are to be moving toward a destination. We have left the sins and evil things of our past behind, and we are moving toward the future that God has for us.
To walk on this glorious way, we need vision. We must look to Jesus who is the author and finisher of our faith (Hebrews 12:2).
The way that God has set before us is really an ancient way (Jeremiah 6:16). It is an old path (Jeremiah 18:15).
This old path and ancient way is the teaching of Jesus Christ and his apostles as recorded in the Bible (2 John 6). We need to get back to the teachings of the Bible and abandon the religious traditions that people have made up over the centuries. The vain traditions of people will not connect us to God. They will bring us into bondage. We need to purity of the word of God in order to encounter the purity and presence of God. In order to walk forward in the Christian life, we must obey the word of God. The word of God shows us the way, and it defines the way. When we deviate from the word of God, we can turn aside from this road that God has placed in front of us.
There are two primary spiritual roads in this world.
One road is a narrow road that leads to life, and the other road is a broad road that leads to destruction (Matthew 7:13-14). Jesus said that many people go on the broad road to destruction, but few people go on the narrow road to life.
The narrow road that we are called to walk is called the “Highway of Holiness.”
A highway shall be there, and a road,
And it shall be called the Highway of Holiness.
The unclean shall not pass over it,
But it shall be for others.
Whoever walks the road, although a fool,
Shall not go astray.
No lion shall be there,
Nor shall any ravenous beast go up on it;
It shall not be found there.
But the redeemed shall walk there,
And the ransomed of the Lord shall return,
And come to Zion with singing,
With everlasting joy on their heads.
They shall obtain joy and gladness,
And sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
(Isaiah 35:8-10)
This is the glorious highway that we are called to walk upon. It is possible to move quickly on this highway and grow quickly in God.
This highway is a holy place. It is for holy people. When we are born again, God calls us holy. We are holy because our sins are taken away by the blood of Jesus. We are now called saints. The Bible commands us to be as holy as God is holy (1 Peter 1:16). This is only possible by the Holy Spirit.
According to Isaiah, no lions or other ravenous beasts travel on this road. As we walk with Jesus on the narrow way, on this holy highway, we are protected from evil spirits. Satan cannot destroy us.
There is fellowship on this road. The redeemed people of God are walking there, and they are all heading toward a common destination. It is encouraging to walk with like-minded people along this road. It’s good to walk in the same direction.
There is joy on this road. It’s a place of joy because everyone on this road has left a bad place and is going to a good place. They have been redeemed from sin and Satan. They are singing together.
The destination of this road is Zion. Zion is a spiritual place where God is. It is a place of spiritual blessing and power. It is a place of eternal life and joy and peace. Our heavenly Father is in Zion.
We will reach the glorious destination of Zion when we die. But actually we are already in Zion because we believe in Jesus (Hebrews 12:22). We are already in Christ. We are citizens of the heavenly Jerusalem. As we grow in the Lord, we partake of God and of the riches of Zion more and more.
We draw near to God through blood of Jesus, which was shed to take away our sins. We can come boldly into the Holy of Holies to find grace and help from God (Hebrews 4:16).
Through Christ, we walk on the glorious way he has laid out for us in his Word. This is the only place of true joy and peace in this world. Let us look to Jesus, and walk forward with him in confidence, leaving other things behind and not turning aside from this glorious path.
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