This morning we begin worship with:
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
Rarely these days do we start a journey without entering the destination into an app, from which a gentle voice gives us step by step directions along the way. Our verse today is the preface for the wonderful exchange between Thomas and Jesus that speaks of the "way":
" . . . And you know the way to where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
But without knowing the destination, the way taken is pointless.
Our destination is heaven. And there, it is not some random cloud as depicted by so many an illustrator. It is a room in a house prepared specifically for us. Friends, our destination is home.
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