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In the 14th chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament, Thomas asks what sounds like a very good and logical question of Jesus who had just told his disciples that they knew the way to where he was going. Thomas’s question: “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, how can we know the way?” (the Greek root for our word "logic" is "logos" which is used for "Word" in John 1, v.1: "and the Word was with God") Jesus responded by stating that he WAS the way, as well as the truth and the life. (and still IS) It then became apparent that, in a spiritual sense, one could be proceeding to an unknown destination and yet still know the way there. We’re also informed in the New Testament book of Hebrews Chapter 8, verse 11, that Abraham went out obediently to receive his inheritance , not knowing where he was going. Thomas was learning like Abraham that as long as he had Jesus with him, and later IN him, it didn’t matter that he wasn’t sure of where they were going because Jesus was sure. Jesus was the way to Thomas’s uncertain destination. Thomas did not have to be certain where he was going because Jesus was certain where they were going.
Similarly Abraham did not have to know exactly where he was going because he knew that God, Who was walking with him and with Whom he was walking, DID know exactly.
It is like that in our lives also. If we know Him who is the Way personally, we don’t have to know our exact destination because we are moving step by step inseparably with the One who does know, and we can rest in that fact, because our trustworthy Guide (also a title for the Holy Spirit) loves us and has our best interests at heart. Jesus is always at work unfolding His good purposes in and through our lives, always unveiling more of His many kindnesses to us and for us. Though there is often anxious uncertainty as to the exact details of our respective futures in God and what they are going to look like, we can be persuaded that it’s going to be good. “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for them that love Him.” (1 Corinthians 2, v.9) This new creation work in our lives is going to be good, even as God said of His first creation work each day, “It is good.” This can make for a holy suspense, an exciting anticipation the more convinced we are of God’s deep and tender love for us. The path of the righteous, Proverbs 4 verse 18 tells us, shines brighter and brighter unto that perfect day!
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