Saint Cecilia by Ermes Dovico

GOSPEL PEARLS

The world’s only Saviour

 No one comes to the Father except through me. (John 14: 7)

Gospel Pearls 10_05_2020

“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 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. You know the way to the place where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?” Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.” Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.” Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.  Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves. Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. (John 14: 1-12)

It is useless to fool ourselves: we cannot get to heaven by way of other faiths outside of Christianity. Faith in Jesus, as the Son of God, is indeed the only way to be saved. If we believe that Jesus is of the same divine nature as His Father, we then realise that the Word of the Son is same of the Father. And that by listening to Jesus we observe His Father’s Will, especially when it is humanly difficult and costly. Therefore, let us try to always remember that Jesus is our only way to the Father through whom we are all saved.