The Way

Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”

John 14:6

Buried somewhere in the more than fifty storage boxes of object lessons and teaching aids that I have stacked in my basement, I have a map of the universe. It starts by showing where planet Earth is in our solar system and then shows where the closest stars are in relation to our sun. This small cluster of stars is found about three-fourths down one of the spiraling arms of the Milky Way.

The map locates the closest galaxies to us and then shows us ten billion light years in each direction which is as far as the Hubble Space telescope can see in any direction. The idea is that if anyone gets that far, they can stop at a gas station and get a new map.

The thing that interested me the most was that nowhere on the map does it show where heaven or the throne of God is located. I suppose it doesn't really matter because no space craft from earth has ever left our solar system to go someplace else.

Heaven exists and everyone wants to go there but no one can find it on the map. Even if someday astronomers can get a sighting of the celestial city, the fact remains: We can’t get there from here!

Can we go somewhere that has access to Heaven? The good news is that anyone can get to Jesus through faith and Christ will lead him to paradise. Christ Himself said, “I am the way…No one comes to the Father except through Me.”