SATURDAY May 4, 2024
You Just Need Jesus
...and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity. And He came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near. For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.
Ephesians 2:16-18
Jesus Christ’s sacrificial death on the Cross made a way for both Jew and Gentile to be reconciled to God. Therefore, there should be no disunity in the body of Christ. Jesus Christ is the Mediator for Jew and Gentile to receive salvation and to have access to God the Father:
For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time... (1 Timothy 2:5-6).
When a person accepts Jesus as the only way for their salvation, they immediately have an open door to God the Father. Try any other way, and God is unreachable. Men have tried to reach God through their own methods: good works, obeying the Jewish Law, or man-made traditions. They even attempt to reach Him through some person other than Christ––Mary the mother of Jesus, the Pope, Buddha, or Krishna––but it does not work that way. God the Father is accessible through Christ alone. You just need Jesus!
One of Jesus’ Disciples, Thomas, was very troubled. The Lord had told the Disciples that He was going away, but Thomas was not sure where He was going or the way (John 14:1-5). Consider the profound truth in Jesus’ answer to Thomas that helped calm his concerns: “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6). Thomas did know the way! It was through Jesus!
Have you been trying to reconcile yourself to God through your own ways? There is only one way. You just need Jesus!
Jesus is the only way because the Bible says it to be true. Why? Because only He can bridge the gap between God and man; there's no other way.
~Norman Geisler~
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