Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (Jn. 14:6). He is the way; without Him, we are lost. He is the truth; without Him we are in error. He is the life; without Him, we are dead. Christ once lived in the world in a physical body. He was confined to wherever that body happened to be. When He was in Jerusalem, He was not in Galilee. However, in His glorified state at God’s right hand, He is not confined geographically. He can be with His people wherever they are (Mt. 28:20). He can be our access to the Father from wherever we are (Rm. 5:2). How comforting to know that Christ is present and that He has the power to help us.

On Being Like Jesus

• We want to be like Him as He walks on the water, but don’t want to walk the dirty floor of a poor man’s hovel.
• We would raise the dead, but will not hold the hand of the sick.
• We would turn water into wine, but will not turn our money into food, clothing, and shelter for the needy.
• We would still a storm on Galilee, but will not calm the troubled heart of a neighbor.
• We would restore the deaf man’s hearing, but will not share with him what he needs most to hear.
• We want to be like Jesus but prefer to walk with Him in triumph over palm branches, not under the weight of the cross. We want the crown, but not the cross.
• We would like a scepter, but not a shepherd’s staff.  We prefer the royal garment to the service towel.
• We want to be like Jesus as King, but not as servant.

   “...we should follow in his steps…” —1 Peter 2:21

No Other Name

No other Name has ever won such diverse allegiance—Paul and Tolstoi, Roosevelt and St. Francis, Grenfell and Schweitzer. No other voice speaks to every man “in his own tongue.” Well might that little Chinese girl confess: “I have known Him all my life, and one day I learned His name.” If other nations refuse Him at our hands, it is not because He lacks authority but because our hands have not been clean. Yet, even despite our unclean hands, His purity shines through, and His Gospel now is read in over three hundred different tongues.

  “Gospel” means “good news” and refers to the salvation offered through Christ’s death. “Gospel” is an old English contraction of two words “the God spell.” It refers to those who have been called by the Gospel (2 Thes. 2:14), have come under the power of the Gospel (Rm. 1:16), and who pattern their lives after the Gospel (1 Cor. 15:1; Phil. 1:27). Each should ask, “How much am I under “God’s spell?”

  Jesus. Truly, a name I love to hear!

“Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved”

—Acts 4:12