Weekly Devotional

One-Way Street to Heaven

               Driving to some place new can often times be interesting.  If you have no idea where to turn, you are required to pay close attention to road signs to help you find your way.  It can really get confusing if you find yourself in an area where there are only one-way streets.
               Generally, one-way streets are designed to guide traffic more quickly and efficiently in a certain area.  If we want to get to a certain area and there are one-way streets, we may need to drive around so that we can stay in the flow of traffic and then get to our destination.
               In John 14:6-7 Jesus gives us this instruction. “I am the way, the truth and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through me.  If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well.  From now on, you do know Him and have seen Him.”
               No one can come to the Father except through Jesus.  No one can get to where the Father is except through Jesus.  No one can get to heaven or spend eternity with the Father except through Jesus Christ.
               Jesus is like that one-way street.  You either move toward Jesus with heaven as your destination, or you simply don’t have heaven as your final, eternal destination.  Jesus’ road is not a toll booth either.  Jesus has already cleared the pathway to heaven by offering Himself up on the cross as the payment for all of our sins.  Ephesians 2:8 says: “For it is by grace that you have been saved, through faith-and this is not from ourselves, this is the gift of God.”
               We cannot earn our way into heaven with good works or good efforts; It is only through Jesus.  That is the big difference between Christianity and other religions.  As Christians, we believe what Jesus told us and that is the only way to eternal life is through Jesus Christ. 
               So now that brings us to the question; “Do YOU know Jesus?”  If YOU know Jesus, then, YOU can tell others what He has done for YOU in YOUR life.  YOU can also introduce others to Jesus as well.  Tell them about YOUR friend and YOUR Savior, Jesus Christ.  Help them find their way to that one-way street to heaven.
Amen.