Today, I am reading and commenting on John 14-16.

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Jesus tells us, “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me.”  When we face the difficult things in this life, we should not let our hearts be troubled.  Jesus told His disciples, and, through them, us, that we know the way to where He was going.  When Thomas asked Him how they could know the way, Jesus told him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”  I was not going this direction, but as I typed that it reminded me of something very important that we need to remember.  Many people say that there are many different paths to God.  As Christians, our instinct is that they are mistaken, and we are not completely wrong in that instinct.  However, the mistake we make is forgetting that Jesus is God.  So, I can both say that there are many ways to God AND that no one comes to the Father except through Jesus.  Most of those who say that there are many ways to God mean that you do not have to believe in Jesus to get to God.  They are wrong.  But there are indeed many ways to God…all of them lead to Jesus.  So, when I say there are many ways to God, I am saying that people who genuinely seek God will find Jesus, no matter what path they start out on.  The problem is that most of the people who are seeking God by other paths started out by rejecting Jesus, by rejecting God.  Fortunately, some of those who started out rejecting Jesus are actually only rejecting the false Jesus, the idol, with which some of those who call themselves Christian have replaced the real Jesus.  I will repeat, those who genuinely seek God will find Him, will find Jesus.  We see some of that search in what Jesus’ disciples said to Him here.  They too struggled with finding God through Jesus because they kept replacing the Jesus with whom they walked with a false idea of who He was.  Jesus worked with them and brought them to actually see God in Him, to see that He was God.

A couple of times in today’s passage Jesus tells His disciples, and through them us, that if they ask anything in His name, they (and we) will receive it.  We need to understand that asking in His name means that we are asking for it to accomplish His will .  Or as James tells us, “You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on you passions.”  If we ask to spend it on our passions we are not truly asking in Jesus’ name.  On the other hand, if we ask for that which brings glory to Jesus, we will do even greater works than those which Jesus performed on this earth.  However, it won’t really be us, because it will be God doing it and whatever it is will bring glory to God, not to us.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.