February 25

“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way.” John 14:6

God’s way for man is not a route which can be charted on a map; indeed, it is not a thing at all, but a Person. His Son is the only means for attaining his end. The one and only way that leads from where we are to where God is, is Christ.

All who have truly come to God have done so by making this discovery—that Christ does not merely teach us the way to the Father; he is the Way. We meet him and he leads us to God.

But going on from this first experience, we need to realize that progressively, no less than initially, we can approach the Father only through the Son. “I am the way” was true when we first came to God. It is still true and always will be. Yet numbers of defeated Christians have for years sought what they would call the way of victory, and are still pursuing their weary quest.

Alas, they are searching for a way and are missing him who is the Way. As long as we are trying to find some technique for overcoming sin and Satan, we are doomed to defeat. Formulae have their use in the world of nature, but in the realm of the spirit nothing has value apart from the living Christ himself.