The Way

I conducted  a funeral service today and had an opportunity to proclaim the gospel to a number of people. Jesus told his disciples that he was going to his Father's house to prepare a place for them so they could be with him where he was. And that one day he would come back for them. Thomas struggled to believe and said: "We don't know where you are going and we don't know the way." Jesus answered him: "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
Jesus is the way. The way is a path from one point to another. Jesus is the way from man's total ruin in sin to the Father. Many people live in confusion of what happens after you die, some don't believe there is an afterlife. But if you believe in Jesus and trust in him you will know the way to the Father's house. There is great peace when you know where you're going after you die. Heaven is a real place as real as any place you know, when someone dies who has trusted in Christ to save them from their sins you know exactly where they are because you know where they went. There are many roads presented as a way to God. The problem with all these roads is that they will never take you to the Father's house. There is only one way and that way is the person of Jesus Christ.