“Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:3 ESV)
Names of God
God has many names and titles in the Bible. Each one tells us something important about Him—His character and how He relates to us. And how we must relate to Him. Here is another one of His many Names, which is The Way.
Jesus is The Way
Jesus is the way to the Father. The way of life. The way to salvation. Jesus lived on earth to show us the way. To follow Him on this way means that we are to walk as He walked. We are to follow in His footsteps, living as He lived.
The Way is narrow
“Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.” (Matt. 7:13-14)
What to do
There is something you must do before you can start to walk on the narrow way that leads to life. Paul describes it perfectly in the following passage:
“But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ.” (Phil. 3:7-8)
We must leave behind everything that hinders us
Leave things behind like our own reasonings and ideas. Our belief in our own abilities. Relationships that hold us back. Status. Honor. Pride. Those have to be counted as loss and rubbish and left outside the gate; there is no room for them on the narrow way.
A way of action
“Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.” (James 1:22)
Therefore
There is actually great freedom on the narrow way. Freedom from being bound to commit sin when we are tempted!
“Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind, for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.” (1 Pet. 4:1-2)
