by David Scott Robertson
(John 14:6 NIV) Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
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Jesus is the Way.
The way to life. The way to heaven. The way to peace. The way to fulfillment. The way to contentment. The way to abundance.
I want to be in the Way--that is, in Christ.
I don't want to be in the way of Christ, preventing Him from accomplishing what He desires for my life or in the lives of others. No, I want to be in the Way.
I desire for the Lord to show me the way. To show me His ways. To enable me to walk out His ways. I want to stay in the Way and make sure I stay out of His way. I want to help others find the Way.
I myself have walked the wrong way before I discovered that Jesus is the only way to God. Now I want to help others find their way off the one-way street of sin that leads away from God.
One way that I can do this is to read God's Word--to study God's ways and make them my ways. If I do that, then there's no way the devil can knock me out of the Way. With authority, I can order him to "go away"!
Since God's ways are higher than our ways, adopt His and abandon yours.
Any way you weigh it, to be in the Way is the way to go and to stay out of the way of God's movement in your life is the right way to live. Yahweh knows best.
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(Psa 25:12 NIV) Who, then, is the man that fears the LORD? He will instruct him in the way chosen for him.
(Psa 32:8 NIV) I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you and watch over you.
(Psa 139:24 NIV) See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
(Prov 4:11 NIV) I guide you in the way of wisdom and lead you along straight paths.
(Prov 8:20 NIV) I walk in the way of righteousness, along the paths of justice,
(Prov 9:6 NIV) Leave your simple ways and you will live; walk in the way of understanding.
(Prov 12:28 NIV) In the way of righteousness there is life; along that path is immortality.
(Prov 22:6 NIV) Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.
(Isa 26:8 NIV) Yes, LORD, walking in the way of your laws, we wait for you; your name and renown are the desire of our hearts.
(Isa 48:17 NIV) This is what the LORD says-- your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: "I am the LORD your God, who teaches you what is best for you, who directs you in the way you should go.
(Jer 2:17 NIV) Have you not brought this on yourselves by forsaking the LORD your God when he led you in the way?
(Acts 18:25 NIV) He [Apollos] had been instructed in the way of the Lord, and he spoke with great fervor and taught about Jesus accurately, though he knew only the baptism of John.
(Col 4:5 NIV) Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity.
(Titus 2:3 NIV) Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good.
DSR
4/25/05