How do we get there

Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. We like Thomas have this for an answer for our question of how we get to heaven. If Jesus is the way as in a direction, well it's kind of foggy out this morning and in the midst of things we might get lost. There are many roads to take, what if we take the wrong one? So many questions, I don't think it will work. If Jesus is the truth then I must understand Jesus correctly and there are confusing texts in places. There are contradictory texts in places, what do I do with that. It is like being on a journey and realizing that if you are not driving the right kind of car you won't get there and no one will tell you exactly what the right kind of car is. If Jesus is the life, then how about my life? Must I make a dramatic once in a lifetime change and become born again and then I am done with it?

The answer I think is to see Jesus not from our eyes, but from Jesus eyes. Jesus' way was a way of peace and caring and healing, how are you called to live that out in your life (which is most certainly different from how I will live that out in my life). Jesus' way is truth. It is not about believing the right things. It is not about being for or against the right things. It is not about doctrine or rules or language or belonging to the right church or maybe even the right faith, it is about grace and how you embody that in your life. Jesus is the life, a life connected with the will and the love of God. When you find yourself connected, you find yourself changed. Not once in a lifetime, sometimes not even all that dramatic, but changed. Day by day we are changed. Day by day we learn to love and care for others as Jesus did. Day by day we work at taking one more step toward living a life of Grace until we look back over that zig - zag line and see how we have changed. We also see how our companions on that journey are not all like us, do not believe all like us, have started in many different places. We begin to see heaven on earth. We begin to see God.