It was a beautiful day, in mid-October. The autumn had been amazing. There hadn't been much rain and the days had been sunny, with a crisp chill in the air, keeping the leaves crunchy. The trees were ablaze of colours, like fire. The countryside looked amazing, the arching trees, rolling fields of green and yellow and the leaves lightly gliding down to the earth, like golden confetti.We were on our way to Tumbridge, the sky was blue and the sun was shinning and at one point, the morning sun's rays, shown through the golden branches of the trees and shines through the mist. Then Lewis pipes up, 'When I see the sun like that it reminds me of God!'
It was Saturday morning and we were trying to get to Tumbridge in a transit van and I had stupidly said, 'We should take the back way, it was quicker last time I went.'
Well... well done Clare, because just after we had been admiring the scenery, sunlight and colours of the autumn trees, Jane said, 'I feel like we are going round in circles. I think we went the wrong way at that roundabout.'
Tip no.1: Do not trust Satnavs-they do not recognise newish (built in the last 5 years) and then you get completely lost!
But the main point of this story(which is true) is that sometimes the journey is wonderful, beautiful and comfortable. Sometimes you can be enjoying the journey and think your going the right way. When sometimes you are actually completely lost and you never realised it.
I guess sometimes is it easy to forget the way and get lost, we do it all the time, in so many different ways. Physically lost, emotionally lost, financially lost (especially at this moment in time with the economic crisis) and the most hard to realise when you have got lost, spiritually lost.
A little girl got lost in a shopping centre and her parents were frantic. They were so worried about her. They decided the best way to proceed and find her was for the mum to go one way and the dad to go the other way. So off they went.
When the dad saw his daughter from across the centre, he stood back and observed her. She was standing outside a sweet shop, looking longingly at the sweets in the shop window. His daughter did not look distraught, she did not look like how children normally look when they are lost. In fact the girl hadn't even realised that she was lost. She was perfectly contented where she was.
So she didn't realise and see that her father had come back to get her.
Sometimes when we are lost or have taken the wrong turning we don't realise we are lost and we don't realise that our Father has come to find us.
When we were all lost- our Father had to find us, so He sent Jesus to be our guide, to be our satnav, the ultimate satnav that doesn't go wrong, to be the way.
6 Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me. 7 If you had really known me, you would know who my Father is. From now on, you do know him and have seen him!” John 14:6-7
This is one of the most important passages in the Bible- that Jesus is the way! How can we know the way to God? Only through Jesus!
Jesus is the way because He is both God and man. By uniting our lives with His, we are uniting with God.
Jesus is the ONLY way to God the Father, some people may argue that it is too narrow for everyone one to get through, a bit like a tiny country lane that two cars cannot pass down. However it is wide- so wide, wide enough for the world to pass don and unite with God! Jesus is not a tiny country lane-instead He is a motorway, wide enough for everyone and for everyone to travel at their own pace.
Do not worry that The Way is limited, God has provided us with a way- Jesus and we should be thanking God for providing us with a way.
