“I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
-John 14:6
These words spoken by the Lord Jesus summarizes the sole hope of humanity. In all of its efforts to find salvation away from damnation, in all colonizations to industrializations or philosophies to policies. No method of man has found an eternal cure for the eternal curse. It did not matter to where men would flee, or what man would create, nor did it matter what they would legislate for the land or the mind. They just could not escape that which was within them and therefore, WAS them. However, Jesus brings clarity for the searching man, light for the blind man, and life for the dead man. He did not prompt this answer through a political stance or philosophical proposition. No, He simply brought Himself.
You see dear reader, what we as human beings desire more than anything is fulfillment. Whether it be at the dinner table, behind the desk, on bank statements, or in the hospital bed. We want to be filled to the brim with things such as food, knowledge, money, or medicine because they INITIALLY fill our desires. With being fed, we no longer desire food, nor worry about when we will eat next because we have had our fill. With being taught, we no longer desire to learn what we were initially learning, nor worry about learning it again because we have had our fill. With being paid, we no longer desire to make more money nor worry about working to earn more because we have had our fill. With being healed, we no longer desire the medicine nor worry about taking it again because we have had our fill.
However, these all last but a moment. Eventually, you will get hungry again, a new lesson will need to be learned, you will spend what you earned, and you will get sick again. This is the pattern of human life, folks. We fill our bodies and brains only to be filled again. But, our souls are not like this. Our bodies are born with the natural need of nourishment. No human nor animal is born without the need to eat and drink. Our souls differ in that they are born with the natural need to be REborn. Because sin has drained them dry! Without something great enough and powerful enough to REVIVE a soul, nonetheless fill it, they cannot nor will not ever be resurrected. That leaves us with a question then, “What can possibly do such a thing like revive a soul deadened by sin?” I can tell you this, it certainly isn’t your neighbor nor is it the person you see on TV. Because they, believe or not, are in the exact same doomed and depraved boat that you are.
Don’t let this truth turn you away from Christ, folks. Don’t look at your corpse in the mirror and think, “I can’t bring this to Christ. I can’t possibly burden Him with something that I, myself, can’t even bear!” If that is you, I am afraid you have missed the point entirely. You, dear friend, are EXACTLY who Christ came for. He calls you specifically out of the multitude of saints. Out of 5,000 priests, pastors, servants, and deacons, Christ calls out the 1 sinner. Out of the 99 sheep that follow Him without the slightest misstep, He goes after the one sheep gone astray. The same goes for you. I cannot possibly urge you enough, my beloved, to come to Christ and lay upon Him all your burdens, all your cares, all your tears, and all of your fears.
There is no one besides Him that can and will take it, but in return He gives you what you could have ever wanted. Fulfillment. Not in the form of earthly bread for the body that molds and goes stale, but bread for the soul that nourishes to end. My dear Christ walks on the water, up to Golgotha’s mountain onto Calvary’s Cross, and through the open tomb… Just to get to you.
Now, you may be reading this thinking, “Well that all sounds great, Luke. But, you haven’t mentioned anything about the Father. I may get through Jesus by faith, but what if the Father doesn’t see me as worthy still?” This is where the news becomes ever greater! Before Jesus even says those sweet words, He said this about the Father in John 6:44, “44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him.” You see now, my friend!? God the Father provided for you long before you began to consider Him! All who come to the Son, The Father has long awaited! As Jesus once told the disciples about the prodigal son who abandoned his father, vanquished his entire inheritance on vanity, and returned home expecting nothing but wrath. Yet only received the greatest of welcomes! Your Father in Heaven lovingly awaits your return all the same! Will you come to Him? I pray so.