I AM THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE

Dear friends in Jesus Christ,

In today’s gospel, once of His apostles St. Thomas asks Jesus, “Jesus you say you are going to go away from us and how can we know the way to follow you?’

Jesus then looking at all His disciples says, “I am the way, the truth and the life”.

I am the way

We all often ask the question, “What is the way?” there are two ways the good way or the bad way. When we choose the good way that is Jesus, it leads us to life and happiness.

One day a man while walking on seashore, noticed a boy ahead of him picking up starfish and throwing into the sea. The man reached the boy and asked what he was doing. The boy said, “I am saving the lives of these star fish”. The man laughed at the boy and said, ‘look at here, there are so many starfish on the shore and how can you say that you are making a difference throwing starfish into the sea?’ the boy said throwing a starfish into the sea, “I make a difference to this starfish”.

When we come to Jesus, our life will be so different and be blessed. We not only find a way in Christ, we ourselves become a way to so many people in this world. No one can go to the father except through Him. Jesus alone is the way. He is the Alpha and the Omega, yes; He is the beginning and the end. Nothing can exist without Him. When we abide in Him, we will have more of everything.
I am the truth

Jesus our Lord says that He is the truth. What is truth? We who believe in Christ and we who come to church and practice our faith know that the word of God is truth and Jesus is the word of God that means He is the truth. The word of God can be heard only when we open our hearts and minds to the love of God our father.

When Jesus said to Pilate that He came to witness the truth, Pilate asked Him, ‘what is truth?” Christ is the truth.

One day four blind people tried to know how an elephant would look like. The first blind man by touching its legs said, “it looks like pillars and another by touching its ear said it looks like a fan and the four touching different parts of the elephant came to different conclusions. That is way we too understand truth, because of our limited knowledge and wisdom, by our limited understanding and language we come to conclusion of different things and say that is the truth. But Jesus is the only truth and by believing and giving ourselves to Him, we not only find the truth but we become truth for many.

I am the life

We all ask the meaning of life and our own existence. What is life? Life can by understood only by living. Yes, life can be understood only by living in Jesus Christ.

From the life story of St. Augustine we can understand. He went everywhere to find the meaning of life and he spent everything that He had to find life but he never found and one day when he opened the Bible, there He found life. Yes life begins and completes only in Christ. There will be no life without Christ. He is the life. No one can say that he or she lived a complete life without Christ. Christ completes our life.

Conclusion:

As we celebrate Christ who is the way, the truth and life, let us deepen our faith in Him. Let us again and again go to Jesus like Thomas and other apostle and ask Him what we need and He will fulfill everything with compassion and love. Amen.