"KNOW THE WAY!"

John 14:3-7                         (ESV)
"3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to MYSELF, that where I am you may be also.
4 And YOU KNOW THE WAY TO WHERE I AM GOING."
5 Thomas said to him, "LORD, "WE DO NOT KNOW" where you are going. How can we know the way?"
6 JESUS said to him, "I AM THE WAY, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the FATHER except through ME.
7 If you had known ME, you would have known MY FATHER also. From now on you do know HIM and have seen HIM."



Knowing where you are going is VITAL to your journey.  If you don't know where you are going, you are like a ship without a sail, being blown wherever the wind chooses for you to go.  JESUS could SEE the future, as well as the past and present, and HE told the disciples "YOU "KNOW THE WAY" TO WHERE I AM GOING."  I'm not sure they had contemplated WHERE they were headed and what it would cost them?  But JESUS wanted them to KNOW HIM, and for that to be enough!

Our ultimate "destination" can sometimes be hidden by the plans we try to make for our trip to the "destination"?  A tremendous price has been paid for us to be "with JESUS" (Philippians 2:7; Ephesians 2:6; Romans 6:4), so why do we want to "hang around" grave yards where death and disappointment flourish?  Two of the greatest tools the enemy has as his disposal are fear and doubt!  There is grace and forgiveness IN CHRIST, but the enemy wants us to be saddled with guilt because we can't live a HOLY life!  The HOLY life has already been offered on our behalf by JESUS CHRIST, and we cannot improve upon it!  We can only do our best to live for HIM during our earthly lives.

Thomas said in John 14:5  "LORD, WE DO NOT KNOW where you are going. How can we know the way?"   But JESUS said "YOU "KNOW THE WAY" TO WHERE I AM GOING"!  There may be times when we may not can SEE where we are going, but if JESUS is s already there we "KNOW THE WAY" TO WHERE HE IS GOING!  We may have to walk in the darkness, but we "KNOW THE WAY"!!!