OUR DAILY BREAD : GETTING "IN THE WAY"

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June 13
Saturday


GETTING
"IN THE WAY"

READ:
John 14:1-6
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The ancient Romans were known for their roads, which criss-crossed their empire with wide, heavily traveled highways. It's what Jesus' audience would have pictured when He claimed, "I am the way" in John 14:6.

While this verse indicates that he is the way to heaven, there's really more to His statement. Cutting through the underbrush of the dense jungle of our world, Jesus is our trail-guide who makes a new way for us to live. While many follow the way of the world by loving their friends and hating their enemies, Jesus carves out a new way; "Love your enemies, bless those who curse you" (Matt. 5:44). It's easy to judge and criticize others, but Jesus the Way-maker says to take the plank out of our own eye first (7:3-4). And He cuts a path for us to live with generosity instead of greed (Luke 12:13-34).

When Jesus said "I am the way," he was calling us to leave the old ways that lead to destruction and to follow Him in His new way for us to live. In fact, the word follow (Mark 8:34) literally means, "to be found in the way" with Him. You and I can make the choice to travel the familiar and ultimately destructive ways, or we can follow Him and be found in the way with the One who is the way! __Joe Stowell
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`````````````````As people of the Lord we're called````````````````
``````````````````````To follow in His way;``````````````````````
``````````````And though the world won't understand,``````````````
````````````````They'll see Him on display. __Sper````````````````
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We don't need to see the way
if we're following the One who is the Way

**************Today's Bible Reading__ John 14:1-6****************

1 "Let not your heart be
troubled; you believe in
God, believe also in Me.

2 In My Father's house are
many mansions; if it were
not so, I would have told
you. I go to prepare a place
for you. 3 And if I go and
prepare a place for you, I
will come again and receive
you to Myself; that where I
am, there you may be also.

4 And where I go you know,
and the way you know."

5 Thomas said to Him,
"Lord, we do not know
where You are going, and
how can we know the
way?"

6 Jesus said to him, "I am
the way, the truth, and the
life. No one comes to the
Father except through Me."

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Through His death and resurrection, "the way" (v.6) that Christ
has opened for us has radically changed the future of heaven and
earth, C. S. Lewis eloquently writes on this truth: "something
perfectly new in the history of the universe had happened. Christ
had defeated death. The door, which had always been locked, had
for the very first time been forced open.... What are we going to
make of it?... That hypothesis is that God has come down into the
created universe, down to manhood--and come up again, pulling
it up with Him." For the believer, the way of Christ leads to eternal
joy. __Dennis Fisher