Blessed Assurance
Only one way
Revelation 22:17 "Whoever desires let him take the water of life freely."
A driver stopped to ask the way to a certain street. When told, he asked doubtfully, 'Is that the best way?' The man replied, 'That is the only way.'
There is only one way of salvation and that is Christ. Jesus said, 'No one comes to the Father except through me' (John 14:6). Peter declared, 'there is no other name given under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.' (Acts 4:12). Is this arrogance or intolerance? No and Christians must never be guilty of those attitudes. We are saved solely by God's grace; we do not deserve it. But Christ was God's appointed means of salvation. Only Christ rose from the dead.
One of the greatest controversies in the Christian faith is that Jesus claimed to be the only way to God. There have been many groups that have branded Christians as arrogant because we claim exclusive truth or intolerant because we refuse to accept other faith as genuine. The belief that Jesus Christ is the only true way to God is not just some abstract theological consideration, it is the belief that Christians for two thousand years have based their lives on. They have bled and died for that belief, as many are still doing today, because they believed in the absolute Word of God.
Jesus said, I am the way, the truth and the life and no one comes to the Father except through Me. If we look around and see what's going on in our world today, there has never been a time in the world than now that we are flooded with ideas, inventions and too much intellectualism. We are approaching a very dangerous era of our lives. As we look around us today, people are trying to get God out of the system thinking that if there is no God, and no moral restraints we can do whatever we want without regards to the sanctity of God's creation. It's high time that we should be forwarned about the imminence of the second coming of Christ. It's high time to look to the only one who could guide us and help us solve our problems. We have many solutions to many problems that mankind has encountered but they have failed. They try to approach the problem of Drug Abuse through education, information and law enforcement but until now the drug problem has even worsen. It's destroying more families than before. They tried permissive sex to make people closer and they ended up with epidemic of AIDS, broken families, divorce, illegitimate children and lost the sanctity of the home.
They invented nuclear power to make life more convenient and comfortable at the same time maintain peace but the result, toxic waste, cancer, incurable diseases, radioactive contaminants in our water and in the air that we breathe thereby endangering civilization which it is trying to appease. God is reminding us we are doing it the wrong way, that the problems that we are facing cannot be solved by man's ingenuity or technological advancement. Anything that is contrary to God's way is disastrous and bound to fail. What is then God's way of curing or stopping the evil that is pervading our society and lives today?
God's answer to evil is not an organization or national disaster nor sets of rules but a man, His name is Jesus Christ. Because as by One man's sin (Adam) entered the world and by One man's life, sin will be eradicated. 1st Corinthians 1:18-Paul said, Because evil is in the heart and therefore if Christ is in the heart evil is eradicated. Only Christ can change the human heart. Only Christ can change us from the inside out. So expecting a person to change his behavior or lifestyle without dealing with the basic issues of the heart is futile because what can only happen is behavior modification and not a heart transformation and only Jesus has the power to transform a human heart. So accept Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior now in your heart for He is the Only Way.