John 14:1-7 NIV) “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. {7} If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”
We spend a great deal of time, effort, and money in life trying to find inner peace and comfort but it comes to us when we quit trying to find it and accept it from God. In this passage from the Gospel of John we see Jesus telling his disciples the simple advice ‘Trust in God.’ Trust is defined “confidence in and reliance on” and perfectly defines our ideal relationship with God.
We can have complete confidence in God. He makes no promises that will not be kept. Jesus being true God as well as true man would not, could not miss lead us. When he said ‘I am going there to prepare a place for you’ he meant exactly that. When we arrive in Heaven, Jesus will have the perfect place for us to live with him for all eternity.
When Thomas questioned how we can go to Heaven, Jesus once again gave a straight answer that we can still count on today. Jesus is the way to eternal life, he is the one and only way to Heaven, and he is the way we can know God. Put your faith in God. Put your faith in Jesus. When you have done this your heart need not be troubled because you have a room waiting for you in God’s house.
