Read John14:1-6

“Do not let your hearts be troubled.  Trust in God; trust also in me…” (v1)

   The answer for the troubled heart is Jesus… That statement is so simplistic that it sounds trite and insensitive to the hungry hearts living in a culture that bring new stresses every day  filling us with confusion and freezing our ability to make the right choices.  In a world of physical and spiritual starvation, abuse, neglect, misunderstandings, calamity and injustice, it just seems too simple of a solution to say that “Jesus is the answer.”

   But, when you begin to unpack its meaning lights go on, bells ring and hearts are set free!  Jesus is saying, “Don’t allow your heart to be tripped up and trapped by the concerns of this world, they are all temporary.  I am going to build you a room in my Father’s house. It will be an eternal place where life will finally make sense and pain will no longer be present.  Then I will come back to take you there… for you see, I am the only way to get there!  Truly, I am life.  Find me and find life, trust me, I’ve been through more than you will ever experience…And I’ve seen the other side.  It’s worth the fight; it’s worth the trials.  Trust in me!  I’ll get you to your true home!  Just keep walking, keep seeking, and keep believing in me!”

   Father, thank you for making the way to full and real life… NO… Thank you for BEING THE WAY….   Lord Jesus, You are my way, my truth and my life!  I trust you, I believe.  Give me eternal vision so that my time-bound eyes can see the unseen.  And implant in me eternal hope so that my flesh-and-bone heart will be glad and at peace in the face of trials and difficulties.  Amen.