The Way Out

A while back I was asked by our old neighbor, not once but twice, if I could come over and get a bird out of her house. It was a small little bird that quite frankly scared the crap out of me. Why it would come back in a second time is still a completely mystery to me. As I ran around her home chasing the bird from one corner to the other trying to catch it with a towel, because I knew its little bitty beak would cut me to ribbons, I thought this would be so much easier if I could just speak bird and explain how to get out of this mess.

In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe. Hebrews 1:1-2

God is able to do just that, how awesome! God spoke through prophets and angels and burning bushes until finally He decided, ‘Hey I could just go chill with them for a while.’{{Thunderous God voice intended}} Jesus was sent to us so that we could understand that there is a way out.

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”

Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”

Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. John 14:6-10

Imagine if I could have just communicated clearly to that bird that I knew the way and he should follow me. Maybe he wouldn’t have listened. God communicated with us through many sources but none more directly than His son, Jesus. The question is, are you listening to the words He said, the truth He shared, the love He inspired and commanded, and the way out of the hard situation you are in with a path to the kingdom He desires you to have?

The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven. Hebrews 1:3