Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. 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. 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. And where I go you know, and the way you know.1
Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Oh if we understood this principle our foundation would be on the rock. If our heart be troubled; he is the way. If our mind be confused; he is the truth. If we need hope; he is the life.
Beautiful Things
Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Oh if we understood this principle our foundation would be on the rock. If our heart be troubled; he is the way. If our mind be confused; he is the truth. If we need hope; he is the life.
It is the goodness of God, that leads men to repentance. I listened to a testimony last night. A husband was struggling with drugs, alcohol, and lust. He had covered it well before marriage and had married a Christian. When his wife found out these things about him she came very close to leaving. But one night she went to a prayer meeting and was told to love him like Jesus. She repented of what she wanted and committed to let Jesus lead. The husband finds Jesus and his testimony is that for the first time in his life he felt loved, an unconditional love and it broke his heart. This is what the Gospel is about, good news, it instills hope and love to a heart troubled.
Faith is the substance of things hope for, Jesus is its author and finisher. If there is a beginning and an end there is an in between. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Jesus is the Word of God, we have his words, so we can increase our faith. By faith we come to God. The people asked Jesus, what shall we do to work the works of God? Jesus said this is the work of God, to believe in Him. Believing is the work of God, it is not mine or I would boast about such, I must only accept this as truth.
Oh He justified me, even though I was unworthy, he loved me when I was unloving, He made something beautiful out of filthy rags. But this is who He is; he uses the foolish, weak, low born, and the depised things of the world so that no flesh will glory in his presense. He reaches down and touches our heart, such a thing breaks our will. A heart of stone he turned into a heart of flesh, we have never understood such love. From the brokenness he is making beautiful things, oh the many people who need such hope.