“You know the way to the place where I [Jesus] am going.” Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we don’t know where You are going, so how can we know the way?” Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” (John 14:4-6, NIV 1984).
My Musings – In Alice in Wonderland, Alice asks the Cat, “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” To which the Cat replies, “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.” Alice answers, “I don’t much care where.” The Cat then gives the only possible answer, “then it doesn’t matter which way you go.”
If we care about the where, then we better care about “the way.” Particularly if there is no other way. “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.” (Acts 4:12, NIV 1984). If we “don’t much care where,” then there is no particular “way [we] ought to go.” We can follow any path that we choose. But be aware, none of those other paths will take us “to the Father.”
C. S. Lewis said, “Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” And by extension, if Christianity is true, the way one takes is of infinitive importance. Because it will take us to the place where we will spend eternity. It means that what the culture says, “that there are many paths to the Father,” is false. Quite the opposite. There are many paths to hell, but only one path to the Father “who art in Heaven.”
My Advice – “Science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin claimed, ‘It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.’ [But], without the proper end, how do we know what journey to take?” (“The Daily Article,” Dr. Jim Denison, The Denison Forum, September 30, 2026). How do we know what journey matters? If the “end” is what the Bible says, that is to say if Christianity is true, then “we know what journey to take.” We know what journey matters. We do know “the way” to the “end” of “infinite importance.” Because Jesus told us.
Which way are you going? Get on the only right path to the Father. It is the only way to get there.
