Matthew 11:28 English Standard Version (ESV) Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Here is a modified Cyrano and Roxanne story.

A man loves a beautiful maiden from afar but felt unworthy of her love.

He asked his friend to take his words of love and adoration to the fair maiden.

He did this every day for months.

Then his friend and the fair maiden fell in love and got married.

At the wedding feast he approach the fair maiden and said, “I knew you would reject me but the words my friend spoke were mine.”

She answered, “I did not reject you. You never came to me.”

Matthew 15:8 English Standard Version (ESV) This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;

Don’t let fear keep you from coming to Jesus, for the first time or at any time.

In the Lord’s Prayer He calls for the daily bread and He is the Bread of Life, the Manna from Heaven. We need to come to Him every day to feed on His Word.

While He does reside in our hearts our mouths are operated by our mind. We often speak what is on our minds and not what is on our hearts. Perhaps it would be better if we showed up and spoke from the heart instead.

There is nothing funny about unrequited love.

Acts 9:1-2 English Standard Version

The Conversion of Saul

¹ But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest ² and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

Early Christians were seen by the religious community of the day as a cult. Cult is a word none of us particularly care to use or hear, much less be accused of being. Cult only means to think differently.

This life in Christ is all about undoing what we think we know and discovering the truth from the one how is the true witness. He was with God in the beginning and is God, and knows the truth. We have His Word and we know His witness is true.

John 8:28b English Standard Version (ESV) I do nothing on my own authority, but speak just as the Father taught me.

This is the Way. We have no authority to speak anything except what the Father has taught us. This requires a relationship with God that hears God by faith, believes God by faith and obeys God by faith.

2 Corinthians 5:7 English Standard Version (ESV) for we walk by faith, not by sight.

We talk about following Christ but this is a walk of faith not one of self-determination.

When we are born again our first examples of how to live this life is exampled by those around us. It is easier to look to them and say this is the way but it is not. We look to the lives of the disciples who followed Christ and somehow think that understanding how they followed Christ is how we should follow Christ but that is not the way.

Jesus went to be alone with the Father at night to receive instructions about the next day’s events. He did this in a deep personal relationship with His Father.

This is the Way.