The Only Answer

As I was listening to the radio this morning a pastor made a statement that got me to worrying about some of our friends. Here is what he said......

"The person who I don't like is the person who thinks they have the only answer."  

He was quoting people who do not like this verse.....


John 14:6 (NIV)

⁶ Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

The pastor then said "This very same person would not say anything like this if they were at the doctor waiting for an answer to a cure, or a person sitting in a failing airplane waiting for the pilot to correct the flight." 

This is so true. We would want these people to have all the answers. 

So many want to believe that there are many ways to heaven. They want it to be that if they are good people that will be enough.  Some think that if they pray to the right idol that will be enough. Or if they follow their leader to the ends of the earth, that will be enough. Others even believe that they are a god as well and that in themselves is the answer to the after life.

But they are missing the mark in the saddest way concerning their eternity. 

We all miss the mark some times. Some run a red light. Some drop the ball in an important game. I missed the mark last night when I had to be at a meeting in Indy and was not at Riley's band concert. He received an award that none of us knew he was getting. I missed seeing that. 

All these things are things that we can never have a do over on. You can't change what has happened. Time cannot be reversed.

The good news for the ones who have trouble with the fact the Christ is the only way, do have time, as long as they are living, to come to an understanding of the truth of this.

Because eventually we will all believe these scriptures...

Philippians 2:9-11 (NIV)

 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
    and gave him the name that is above every name,
¹⁰ that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
    in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
¹¹ and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
    to the glory of God the Father.

So everyone will acknowledge who Christ is, sometime in our existence, either while we are living or after we have passed to the next life, everyone will bow.... 

My hope for you, Dear ones, is that you bow now. Pretty soon there will not be a chance for a do over. You will miss mark and it will be too late.

Please don't miss the mark......

Blessings!