“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (John 14:6).

This is surely one of the best-known, best-loved, most important, clearest, yet most profound verses in the Bible. There is no other way to come to God except through Christ, no other truth than that which is founded and centered on Christ, no other eternal life except the life of Christ imparted to the believer, through faith in Christ.

All who teach otherwise are “thieves and robbers” of the soul, for Jesus said: “I am the door” (John 10:8,9). There is no other door to heaven, and no other Shepherd of the sheep. He is the only “light of the world” (John 8:12) to illumine a world otherwise blackened by sin, “for God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ” (II Corinthians 4:6).

He is “the bread of life . . . the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever” (John 6:48,51), and there is no other such life-sustaining eternal food for the hungry soul. Likewise, He is the “living water”: “if any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink” (John 7:37,38). No other water satisfies. He is also the one “true vine,” in whom we must abide for fruit-producing life, “for without me you can do nothing,” He said (John 15:1,5). The Scriptures have made it abundantly plain that there is “none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).

There is no other way, the Lord Jesus Christ is the all-sufficient way, and the perfect way, to God. It is not that He shows the way; He is the way, and all who want to come, can come to God through Him. HMM