Jesus as the way, the truth and the life…

 Christianity is centered in who Jesus is (that’s what makes it a unique religion): The Way, The Truth, and The Life-as He called Himself. He claimed to contain all three. The way of life, the truth about life and the life force to live well—i.e. according to His Ways or Nature.

 I think each people group or culture tends to emphasize one of these three areas of God—the way, the truth, or the life. They tend to meet God as the principles of being or way (the Tao—more eastern); the truths about what is Real (the greek and roman mindset we inherited in the West); or the Energy of life force of living (perhaps body oriented cultures, even aboriginal, tropical island folks, and first nations peoples)—how to really live out your ethics or best ideals. These three dimensions of human spirituality are all in Him!

 So Jesus was claiming to be: the path of how to live, the truth about what life is, and the energy to live it correctly, empowering our ethics through the gift of His Own Holy Spirit, and active yielding to His Life’s formation in us. Our actions then begin to be based on the law of Love in Him, which He taught as truth—love God and love others. To do so, we need His actual Life in us! Then we will know the path or way–the “paths set beforehand to be our ways!” (Ephesians 2:10) as well!

 We, as followers in union with Him, claim that through union with His Nature and death to ourselves, we find true Life, even our true selves, and get better at loving Him and one another. Our ethics get empowered through His Spirit and formation of His Life in us. We start to grow in the way, the truth and the Life aspects of who He is.

We lose ourselves into Him to find the way, the truth and the life in Him. That’s Christianity in a nutshell—that Christ is the way, the truth and the life to live it!

 As we enter into Him, ever more deeply, we grow in all three! And can start to love into cultures which emphasize one of these aspects of His Identity! He is the way to live, the truths about what is, and the energy and life to align with what is real life! That’s what we believe. And that is the journey we are on, as true believers, and followers of the One who is the perfect representation of The Father; the One who is the Way, the Truth, and The Life!

 Practical: Which area of the three do you feel like you know Him the least in? Do you tend to know Him as the Life, but less concerned or intimate with The Truth aspect of His Life? Which area of Him is He growing in you in your current season? Which of the three do you think is most developed in those around you, or your city or culture? Does it tend to emphasize the way the truth or the life? What does that say about it’s identity? And how has the enemy of life come in to offer counterfeits in each area! How can you help them grow in the other less developed areas of their spiritual lives. Fun exploring all three aspects of who He is! And pressing on, into letting more of His Life to bloom within us! And challenging ourselves to grow into new parts of Him, and allow Him to form them within our hearts! We can then move in all three areas of knowing and manifesting Him as the Way, the Truth and The Life! Let’s!

 When you think of Jesus as a way or path of being, then as the truths about Reality itself, and then as the life energy and force to live out according, or in full accord with The Father’s Ways, we each need to come into a greater incarnation of His full Identity in all three aspects, in order to be both salt and light-people who can preserve and bring healing, and can bring full understanding and interpretation to the world around us, and in order to shine in the poetry of who He really made us to be!