“Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.” So said St Augustine in around the fourth century A.D. We are born into this world with a restlessness that can only be satisfied when we find our ultimate home in God. That is the location in which it was God’s intention that we should live and exist. Until we find the way to this, our home, we are lost and alone.
The Father ordained and set in motion a vast creation, His Son spoke forth every element of what was to come into existence and the Holy Spirit perfectly executed each divine command. At the very centre of that eternal plan was the creation of a man whom God named Adam. From the very beginning of Adam’s location in the Garden of Eden, God and man enjoyed communion and fellowship. Adam had a Father. He had been created in the likeness of His Father’s only begotten Son. In addition to his body and soul Adam’s was created with a spirit that he might receive the Life of God into him, that he might forever become a perfect son of God, Adam must make a choice. Eden was his proving ground. The fruit of every tree in the garden except one was good for food. Only the fruit of one tree was forbidden for him to eat. Had Adam and his wife, Eve, taken of the fruit of the tree of life they would have become spiritually alive and in God they would have found their home, their dwelling place forever.
On that proving ground of Eden man through his disobedience became a slave to sin, so God ‘drove the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life’. Genesis 3:24. Adam and Eve became orphans without the fatherhood of God and all their descendants became spiritually dead. However, God left a promise of that one of their descendants would bruise the serpent’s head. Many centuries came and went until the promised seed of the woman, the Lord Jesus came and we read that ‘when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons’. Thus, the sons of Adam through faith in the atoning death of Jesus, might again enjoy the fullness of the fatherhood of God.
Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way….let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience…. Hebrews 10:19,20,22. Through His shed blood Jesus became ‘a new and living way’ back into the presence of God for all who come unto God through Him. Yes! The way has been made open again into the fullness of the presence of the Living God. Jesus is the way.
During His life on earth Jesus was the truth and reality of His Father. He could confidently proclaim such things as “He who has seen Me has seen the Father. I and the Father are one.” When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He” (the Messiah), and ” I do nothing on My own initiative, but I speak these things as the Father taught Me.” “He who sent Me is with Me; He has not left Me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to Him.” Jesus represents all that is real and has eternal value and significance. Jesus is the truth.
In Jesus ‘the way to the tree of life’ has been restored. He is the all-inclusive food, for He said, “I am the bread of life. “Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. “This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.” John 6:48-50. In just the same way that the manna supplied to the Israelites during their wilderness journey was their complete supply of nourishment, just so is Jesus as the bread of life the complete spiritual sustenance and the assurance of eternal life to all who believe in Him. We may take this spiritual food into us whenever we choose to by allowing the blessed person of the Holy Spirit to open up the Scriptures to us. Yes, Jesus is the life.
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