Jesus : The Truth

John 14:6 -  Jesus answered, I am the way and the truth and the life. No-one comes to the Father except through me.


The Gospel of John records Jesus as referring Himself as being the 'Truth'. What does this mean for us?


John 1 describes the 'Word' being with God in the beginning. This passage clearly is referring to Jesus, meaning Jesus was there at creation. The existence of a God is the only way absolute truth can be rationalised and since everything on this earth is created by God, it is sensible to suggest that truth was also created by God. Jesus is the truth because He created the truth.


There are many voices calling out to us in today's world and it probably wasn't too much different in Jesus' time or at any other time. Adverts call on us to buy this and buy that and imply it will make us happy. Richard Dawkins and his Militant Atheist cult tell us there 'probably isn't a God' despite no evidence to suggest that and plenty of evidence to suggest the Universe was created. Peers tell us if only we wear this, or do this or live like this then we will be acceptable and right with the world. Actually, there is only one truth and that truth is Jesus Christ.


Jesus existed (37 records excl. the Gospels, some critical but show He existed!), Jesus died for us, Jesus paid for our sins and through Him we will have life to the full (John 10:10).


Jesus is the true key to peace, contentment, fulfillment and happiness. People who meet Jesus and get to know this rarely, if ever, go back, because it is true!


Don't believe the lies, believe Jesus. But don't take my word for it, take His. Don't trust me, Trust Him!


You can thank me in Paradise.

Jesus : The Way

I have struggled for time & ideas for the blog but this week I'm going to post on one of my favourite sayings of Jesus' - John 14:6

To give a bit of context, here is John 14:1-6...

 "¹ Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

    ² In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you.

    ³ And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.

    ⁴ You know the way to the place where I am going.

 ⁵ Thomas said to him, Lord, we don't know where you are going, so how can we know the way?

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

He is the Way and the Truth and the Life. Jesus appears to distinct the three as separate things so I will blog on each one separately so it is natural to start with the first of the three in the verse, Jesus being the Way.

In John 2 & Luke 2 Jesus speaks of His Father house, but in those passages He is talking about the Temple in Jerusalem, the main place of worship for Jews at that time. Here Jesus is referring to Heaven as He refers to the house as a place 'with many rooms'. The Disciples had already been to the Temple so would have known about the room structure meaning that Jesus couldn't have been talking about that. Why would Jesus go to the Jewish Temple to prepare rooms for them? In Pre-New Testament Israel, the Temple was the place where the Priests could go to meet with God and be in His Presence on behalf of the people. When Jesus died the veil separating God from the people torn showing that Jesus had opened a way for us to be in relationship with God now. Of course, our relationships with God are all works in progress or works waiting to be progressed and the ultimate conclusion to the development of this relationship will come when we get to be with God for eternity.

So I believe Jesus is saying He is the Way to Heaven here.

But, how is Jesus the way to Heaven?

Revelation 21 describes Heaven as a place with no more death or mourning or crying or pain, sounds perfect to me! God resides in Heaven and He is Perfect. Nothing imperfect can go into Heaven because it will spoil it!

As human beings, we have all sinned and are all therefore imperfect but God doesn't like the idea of us not being there with Him because He Loves us.

Christ came to live a perfect live and trade His life for ours, taking the punishment for our sin on the cross so we could have the reward of a place in Heaven, where God will perfect us so we can fit in there :)

Put your trust in Christ today and punch your ticket for the greatest party of all time - Heaven.

Our Way or His Way?

I am currently reading through the entire Bible again using a Bible in a year book that I bought from Spring Harvest. I felt my reading time had become a bit stale and hoped the book would re-invigorate it and so far it gets the thumbs up.

Going through the Bible inevitably means a hard slog through the Books of the Law - Leviticus, Deuteronomy & Numbers. I am not knocking these books as I learned something from them that was reinforced in my readings today.

If worship wasn't important to God then why would so much of His Word be dedicated to how Israel should worship Him?

The overwhelming lesson I learnt was that God wants us to worship Him in a certain way. I have spoken to plenty of people in the past who say, 'I believe in God but I worship Him in my own way'. Often, it appears to  mean there are not worshipping Him at all hence the negative 'but' in the sentence.

In Judges 17, Micah and his mother decide to worship God in their own way...

³ When he returned the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, she said, I solemnly consecrate my silver to the LORD for my son to make a carved image and a cast idol. I will give it back to you.

    ⁴ So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who made them into the image and the idol. And they were put in Micah's house.

This goes against one of the Ten Commandments in Exodus 20:-

⁴ You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.

And a command in Exodus 34:17:-

Do not make cast idols.

In Judges 18, Micah's idols are stolen from him and the priest he hires also leaves him. I would suggest this was for his benefit.

So the challenges for us is, are we truly worshiping God? Are we truly giving over every part of our lives to His Will? Are we not going our way rather than His Way in areas of our lives? 


My experience is when we give things to God, He never lets us down in those areas of our lives. May all of us  pray about the parts of our lives that are not fully given over and give them up for Him to bless!


Amen :-)

Testimony from a friend!

I tried to start a Testimony section every week a while ago but it didn't work out. However, I have managed to persuade a few friends & Christian family to kindly give their time to write theirs and here is the first one.

The guy writing this week is one of my closest friends, he is a really friendly, fun and has a strong faith. We share many interests as you can see above, but our biggest shared interest is the impact of Jesus Christ on our lives and here is his testimony which we wrote for his upcoming mission trip to Malawi, but has kindly agreed to let me share on here :)

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I want to tell you a little bit about my life and how it was I came to call myself a Christian. 
I was born into a Christian family and my dad is a pastor of a church. So therefore as a child I was taken to church every week and the idea of attending church was very normal for me. When I was young I assumed this is what everyone did! However, despite being brought up in the faith I had little understanding of what it meant to be a Christian. I didn’t even think about it until I was much older. To me Christianity was about going to church and being friendly to our friends and family. By the age of around 10 I started to think there was no longer any need to go church as I thought I already knew what it was all about. Thankfully my parents wouldn’t let me stay home by myself and I continued going church – albeit reluctantly. 

A couple of years later however, my attitude started to change. A friend of mine invited me to a summer Christian camp and this was the week that I started to realise that Christianity wasn’t just about going to church and being friendly (although these are good things) but it primarily about having a relationship with a living and loving God. It was at this camp that I first prayed for this relationship. 

My understanding of what Christianity was about had grown that year but I still had so much more to learn. The process of learning about who God is has been a slow one for me but I believe it has changed my life. Although there has never been a sudden change of behaviour or attitude in my life I believe learning about God from the Bible has been the main force behind who I am today. Without God I would have little motivation to want to do right things and I can’t imagine how my life would have been without the Bible and God’s love. 

Looking back at my life I can see that my understanding of what Christianity was sometimes quite wrong. For example I remember a friend asking me if I thought I was going to heaven and I replied no. Although I had given my life to Christ and asked for forgiveness I still thought that I had to earn my way to heaven; that I had to do good deeds and appease God. However, as I got older I learnt that we don’t earn our way to God but Jesus died to take away our sins so when we enter into a relationship and ask for forgiveness then we can be 100% sure of our salvation. This process of learning about who God is and what he has done will never end and I know that I still have a lot to learn. 

Despite not always understanding the nature of Christianity I have for a long time known one thing: The God who created the universe and all of us loves us more than we can ever imagine. This love is why Jesus came and died so we could have a relationship with God. It is this love that motivates me to come here today and tell you about my life and what God has done, in the hope that you too can experience his great love :) 

Such a great song

I have a random mix CD playing in my car at the moment, it's the only CD in my car because the others I have meant to be putting on iTunes but haven't quite finished yet!

It has a song on it which I just think is so true and I think there are people out there who will be blessed by it so here it is... :)

What do we expect?

In PCY last Friday one of the leaders told us that he was going to Pembrey Park in Llanelli to set up for the treasure hunt at Camp. I'm always excited for Camp but I think this has kicked off the real countdown in my heart this year. I'm always so excited for Camp because some of the most amazing things I have seen God do have come on Camp.

However, I was challenged by my attitude. Why don't I get as excited everyday for what God can do? God just as present everyday as on Camp, He is just as powerful everyday as on Camp.

To trust in God is surely to be expectant that He will do incredible things.

Jesus said in Mark 11:24-
Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Let's put our trust in God's amazing power and see what he does! Let's get excited!

Long time no write!

In the whirlwind of consistently writing the blog, I had never thought that I would go this long without writing but here I am, almost a month after my last post.

My excuse is exams! I thought I could keep writing but all of that revision caught up on me and I went a few days without posting. I then realised that I was probably better off saving the time that it takes to write the blog as I was getting very tired from revising and needed to focus my energy on that more and more as I approached the exams.

So the exams...started off brilliantly, first two exams whizzed through. The third was tough but I expected it and felt positive that I had done enough. Today's one...well the less said about it the better, the topics that were examined hit me for six but I may have done enough to pass although I feel a less confident than the third!

Now they are over I have my social life back and can begin preparing properly for the half marathon in September I have a few thank you's...

First of all to God, these exams were very hard and it is so much easier when you have God because when you doubt your ability, He reminds you that He made you. When you doubt whether it is possible, He reminds you that anything is possible. When you run out of energy and feel you cannot take no more, He gives you strength and asks you to lean on Him.

I have to admit I have been feeling pretty upset about the exam today, I worked quite hard for it and really wanted to do well and it didn't go to plan. But I know that God will comfort me (He has already begun this work to be honest!) and that any failures will only become part of His Greater Plan.

Secondly, to all of my friends and family and Church family who have prayed for me and encouraged me these last few weeks. It is much appreciated and you just don't know how much of an impact God has made. Thank you so much :)

Lastly, to a special friend of mine who knows who she is who has been extra supportive during this period, God did enough to get me through this but He used you especially and I am glad I didn't have to go through it without your support. Thank you amigo-enredado!

I guess the message of this post is to never give up, to give your best because God is right with you and He will make great things happen and will get you through it...pass or fail :)

John 7:37-38
On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”